This is a test project for packaging memtest86plus so it installs to the EFI partition and is accessible through the systemd boot menu.
This package requires systemd-boot to function, and so it will also only install on UEFI systems, since systemd-boot doesn't support older-style BIOS hardware. Systems using BIOS or the GRUB bootloader on UEFI will see the preinst script exit the install; Ubuntu still uses GRUB on UEFI so it is not supported, and neither are Pop!OS installs using GRUB to boot on BIOS hardware.
This project is being set up as pop-diagnostics instead of just pop-memtest or something, because it may also be useful for adding more tools that can be run outside of the operating systsem proper.
Useful documents:
- https://systemd.io/BOOT_LOADER_INTERFACE/ - the
systemd-bootboot loader system - https://systemd.io/BOOT_LOADER_SPECIFICATION/ - defines the contents of the
/boot/efi/loader/entries/*.conffiles
git clone --recursive https://github.com/cwsystem76/pop-diagnosticscd pop-diagnosticsdpkg-buildpackage -us -uc
This will result in a .deb file in the parent directory that can be installed in the usual ways.
cd memtest86plusgit checkout v6.00-beta2(or other release tag)
sudo /usr/lib/pop-diagnostics/memtest/memtest-util.sh reinstallsudo /usr/lib/pop-diagnostics/memtest/memtest-util.sh uninstallsudo /usr/lib/pop-diagnostics/memtest/memtest-util.sh options "keyboard=legacy"(or other startup options for the memtest EFI executable)