On Thu, 9 Aug 2012, OBATA Akio wrote:
> Now, reboot, drop to the bootloader prompt, and > > boot memtestplus > > You get error: Inappropriate file type or format From MESSAGE (pkg_info -D memtestplus), for such purpose, mdec/memtestplus should be used instead of mdec/memtestplus.bin.
I tried that, too. Booting that image simply results in an immediate reboot.
I have an older version of memtestplus installed, which still boots successfully under -current. The older, working image is from about one year ago, and the size of that working image is similar to the size of the new memtestplus.bin file:
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 162084 Aug 12 2011 /memtestplus -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1210660 Aug 9 06:38 /memtestplus.new -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 164504 Aug 9 06:38 /memtestplus.new.bin Booting memtestplus (old image) works. Booting memtestplus.new fails and resets the machine Booting memtestplus.new.bin "Inappropriate file type or format" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Paul Goyette | PGP Key fingerprint: | E-mail addresses: | | Customer Service | FA29 0E3B 35AF E8AE 6651 | paul at whooppee.com | | Network Engineer | 0786 F758 55DE 53BA 7731 | pgoyette at juniper.net | | Kernel Developer | | pgoyette at netbsd.org | -------------------------------------------------------------------------