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Why memtest+ is added to Grub menu automatically?

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 9:22 am
by fida1989
I am using LMDE for about 1 month. Until today the Grub menu had 2 option one is usual login and another is recovery login. But suddenly today while booting i am seeing 3 more entries added regarding memtest+. :shock: Why is that? Any problem with my hardware or other thing? :?: Anyway the system is running fine without any issues. Any information will be highly appreciated. :)

Re: Why memtest+ is added to Grub menu automatically?

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 9:43 am
by anmys
It comes from the file 20_memtest86 in /etc/grub.d. If you feel that it is not needed, just do

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sudo chmod -x 20_memtest86
If you do not want the recovery entry in the grub menu, uncomment the relevant line in /etc/default/grub:

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GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"
Regards.

Re: Why memtest+ is added to Grub menu automatically?

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 10:00 am
by toomuchcoffee
Updating seems to do that? On a new install there's no memtest entries whatsoever...

Re: Why memtest+ is added to Grub menu automatically?

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 10:20 am
by fida1989
anmys wrote:It comes from the file 20_memtest86 in /etc/grub.d. If you feel that it is not needed, just do

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sudo chmod -x 20_memtest86
It is not working. Says no such file or directory found.

Re: Why memtest+ is added to Grub menu automatically?

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 10:22 am
by fida1989
toomuchcoffee wrote:Updating seems to do that? On a new install there's no memtest entries whatsoever...

I guess you are right. Though i don't know the actual reason.