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: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 06:01:14 -0700 (PDT)

 > 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 kernel
 
 The 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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