Bug 625860

Summary: elf-memtest x86_64 doesn't boot
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Edward Sheldrake <ejsheldrake>
Component: memtest86+Assignee: Anton Arapov <anton>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 13CC: anton, nobody, ss
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.spec file patch to use '-z max-page-size=0x1000' on x86_64 links of the ELF image none

Description Edward Sheldrake 2010-08-20 15:57:32 UTC 
Description of problem:
Trying to boot elf-memtest86+-4.10 from grub fails with
"Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format" if I install the x86_64 rpm. Installing the i686 rpm instead works fine (the x86_64.rpm has always contained 32bit binaries anyway).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
memtest86+-4.00-3.fc13.x86_64
memtest86+-4.10-2.fc13.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install memtest86+.x86_64
2. run /usr/sbin/memtest-setup
3. Reboot and choose Memtest86+ in grub
  
Actual results:
Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format

Expected results:
memtest86+ runs

Additional info:
In Fedora 12 (and the Fedora 13 .i686.rpm), the memtest and elf-memtest image files are about the same size, and elf-memtest works. In Fedora 13 x86_64, elf-memtest is about 1MB larger, and doesn't work.

This is possibly due to the version of binutils in f13 - I built memtest86+-4.10-2.fc13 on Fedora 13 x86_64 but using binutils-2.19.51.0.14-37.fc12, and memtest and memtest.bin end up about the same size (but I didn't test them).
Comment 1 Edward Sheldrake 2010-08-20 18:44:25 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 620846 ***
Comment 2 Jack Perdue 2011-01-07 19:48:13 UTC 
Created attachment 472284 [details]
.spec file patch to use '-z max-page-size=0x1000' on x86_64 links of the ELF image
Comment 3 Jack Perdue 2011-01-07 20:05:12 UTC 
[oops... wrong bug for attachment... see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620846]