why can't this be done on its own?)...
why can't this be done on its own?), but mostly the part about mucking with the BIOS mode. You're aware of how...wrong things have gone for me with this laptop...I just don't want to take ANY chances on further screwing it up!
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
menuentry '[B]Memory test (memtest86+)[/B]' {
insmod part_msdos
insmod btrfs
set root='hd0,msdos1'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos1 ce2b5741-c01e-4b3d-b6ba-401ad7f7fcdf
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root ce2b5741-c01e-4b3d-b6ba-401ad7f7fcdf
fi
knetbsd /@/boot/memtest86+.elf
}
menuentry '[B]Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200[/B])' {
insmod part_msdos
insmod btrfs
set root='hd0,msdos1'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos1 ce2b5741-c01e-4b3d-b6ba-401ad7f7fcdf
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root ce2b5741-c01e-4b3d-b6ba-401ad7f7fcdf
fi
linux16 /@/boot/memtest86+.bin console=ttyS0,115200n8
}
~$ vdir /boot/mem* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 182704 Aug 18 2020 /boot/memtest86+.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 184380 Aug 18 2020 /boot/memtest86+.elf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 184884 Aug 18 2020 /boot/memtest86+_multiboot.bin
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