-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-10852 2009-10-27 05:03:35 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : memtest86+ Product : Fedora 11 Version : 4.00 Release : 2.fc11 URL : http://www.memtest.org Summary : Stand-alone memory tester for x86 and x86-64 computers Description : Memtest86+ is a thorough stand-alone memory test for x86 and x86-64 architecture computers. BIOS based memory tests are only a quick check and often miss many of the failures that are detected by Memtest86+. The ELF version should be used for booting from grub, and avoids the following errors: "Error 7: Loading below 1MB is not supported" "Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format" "Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory" The script '/usr/sbin/memtest-setup' can be run (as root) to add the memtest86+ entry to your GRUB boot menu. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Fix memtest-setup on systems w/o separate /boot, build with gcc4, new upstream release -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Tue Oct 13 2009 Jarod Wilson <[email protected]> - 4.00-2 - Fix memtest-setup on systems without a separate /boot filesystem (#528651) * Tue Sep 29 2009 Jarod Wilson <[email protected]> - 4.00-1 - Update to new upstream release, v4.00 - Drop gcc4.2+ patch, merged upstream * Mon Aug 17 2009 Jarod Wilson <[email protected]> - 2.11-11 - Fix runtime operation when built with gcc4.2+ (#442285) * Sat Jul 25 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <[email protected]> - 2.11-10 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #528651 - Wrong grub setup if /boot is a part of / https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528651 [ 2 ] Bug #442285 - Solve real cause of #437701 and rebuild memtest86+ with GCC 4.3 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442285 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update memtest86+' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-announce
