Re: pkg/46788: memtestplus does not boot stand-alone on amd64

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/46788; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/46788: memtestplus does not boot stand-alone on amd64
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 08:50:31 -0700 (PDT)

 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"
 
 
 
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