If I try to start memtest86+ from grub it complains about the file being of an unknown format. The way to fix it: Do as the old ebuilds did and doins memtest.bin. The diff looks like this: @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ src_install() { insinto /boot/memtest86plus - doins memtest || die + doins memtest.bin || die dodoc README README.build-process if use floppy ; then Tested and works. Portage 2.1.6.13 (hardened/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.4.0, glibc-2.10.1-r0, 2.6.30-rc7 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.30-rc7-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7_CPU_920_@_2.67GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 27 May 2009 13:00:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p24 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.8 dev-lang/python: 2.6.2 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.3-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.9 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2, 1.11 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.29 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -ftree-vectorize -ggdb -mtune=native -floop-interchange -floop-strip-mine -floop-block" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -ftree-vectorize -ggdb -mtune=native -floop-interchange -floop-strip-mine -floop-block" DISTDIR="/var/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="candy ccache distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict test unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="sv_SE.UTF-8" LC_ALL="C" LDFLAGS="-Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,--warn-once,--hash-style=gnu" LINGUAS="sv" PKGDIR="/var/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/var/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/gnome /usr/local/portage/layman/x11 /usr/local/portage/layman/xake-toolchain /usr/local/portage/layman/mozilla /usr/local/portage/mine /usr/local/portage/policykit" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 amr amrnb amrwb applet archive avahi bash-completion bzip2 cairo ccache cdaudio cdda cdr cleartype cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus deskbar device-mapper devicekit devkit dhcpcd digitalradio djvu dmraid dri dvd dvdr dvi eds encode eselect exif faac fat fbcondecor ffmpeg fftw flac fuse gdbm gif glib gmp gnome gnome-keyring gnutls gphoto2 gpm grammar graphite gsf gstreamer gtk hal hardened iconv iconvacl id3tag ieee1394 iptc isdnlog jabber java6 jpeg jpeg2k justify kvm lcms libnotify logrotate lvm mad maps math matroska midi mktemp mms mmx mmxext moonlight mp2 mp3 mpeg mtp mudflap multilib musepack musicbrainz nautilus ncurses network-cron networkmanager nfs nls nptl nptlonly ntfs offensive ogg opengl openmp openntpd ots pam pango parted pcre pdf perl pic pidgin png policykit pppd pulseaudio python qemu quicktime readline reflection samba session smp spell spl sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification subversion svg sysfs test tex theora thesaurus threads tiff totem tracker truetype unicode urandom usb userlocales v4l videos vim-syntax vorbis x264 x364 xcb xcomposite xmp xmpp xorg xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="canon" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="sv" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv nouveau" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Are you using 'kernel --type=netbsd /boot/memtest86plus/memtest' in your GRUB config file (note the '--type=netbsd' part)?
Oh, nope. I have missed that. Did not notice that the einfo in the end had changed... Will retry now.
