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"
Please also note the following: # file /mem*/memtestplus: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, stripped /memtestplus.new: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, stripped
/memtestplus.new.bin: Linux x86 kernelThe old, working file "memtestplus" is about 160kb in size, and is tagged as an ELF executable.
Howver, for the new files, the ".new.bin" file is about the same size but is a Linux kernel. The ".new" file is the correct type, but is much larger in size.
It almost looks like the package installation procedures got the two files somehow "confused". :)
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