Does anyone know a good free test program that can be booted from an usb stick?

looking for something that can show if the system is working as it should.

already run memtest and it cleared 1 pass

but maybe something to stress the cpu?

 

thanks in advance

I have found this...looks promising: http://www.stresslinux.org/sl/ for what you seek.

There are CD and USB images available for DL.

...haven't used it myself, since systems tend to be more reliable these days.

 

Moderator edit:  fix link

thanks,

hehe i just was going to update finding the same link. but you beat me to it.

Indeed it seems to be exactly what i was looking for.

 

cheers!

I have found this...looks promising: http://www.stresslinux.org/sl/ for what you seek.

There are CD and USB images available for DL.

...haven't used it myself, since systems tend to be more reliable these days.

 

 

 

That link isn't working for me.  Getting a 404 error.

I have found this...looks promising: http://www.stresslinux.org/sl/ for what you seek.

There are CD and USB images available for DL.

...haven't used it myself, since systems tend to be more reliable these days.

 

 

 

That link isn't working for me.  Getting a 404 error.

 

Try this link:

 

http://www.stresslinux.org/sl/

 

That's a nice find!

 

And here is a couple of more useful bootable utility disks:

 

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page

since i didn't know how to make it bootable for usb (the warning frightened me )  I went on looking and found this

http://www.hirensbootcd.org/download/

and this link to make it bootable on usb

http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd-on-usb-disk

 

have not tried it yet, still preclearing

 

also slax looked cool but i could not find any packages for system testing (mainly cpu) since memtest is already included in unraid.

http://www.slax.org/

 

this one seems bootcd

http://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/?k=pts_desktop_live

 

 

 

alot more linux related in this thread

http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=486495

 

UPDATE

also it seems it possible to get ultimate bootcd working on usb stick

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/customize.html

 

...Thanks to the Mods for fixing the link on my post above 

 

Regarding the creation of a bootable USB stick.

If only a CD-ISO is available or manual (i.e with dd) USB processing seems too risky...

This tool has never failed on me in making a USB bootable from an

existing CD-ISO: http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

thanks for that link, it opens new doors.

Havent been able to download stresslinux yet seems the server has problems

 

got the hirensbootcd working

as said before I managed to get the hirens boot cd ( usb actualy)  working and tried to use prime95 and core temps.

only thing is, core temps only showed 1 core. I asume due to the limitations of the minixp on the boot "cd"

 

since then pre-clears have been running,parity building, and data transferring.

when things settled own a little I will have another try

Havent been able to download stresslinux yet seems the server has problems

 

got the hirensbootcd working

 

...works fine for me as of now