Bug#727736: Latest linux-image-686-pae fail to boot a xen domU
On Sat, 2013-10-26 at 05:40 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-10-26 at 06:27 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 05:18:56AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > I think this is just like missing hardware support, which we consider an
> > > important bug. And it's also a regression in support.
> >
> > There is no hardware involved.
>
> If some relatively unchangeable VM environment can only boot
> gzip-compressed kernels then using xz compression means we don't support
> that 'hardware'.
FWIW I think this is a sensible way to think of it.
> > > I don't know whether it is important enough to justify using less
> > > efficient compression, but AWS is a very popular platform.
> >
> > AWS even provides pre-built PV-GRUB with support for XZ[1], so apart
> > from a menu.lst nothing else is needed.
>
> OK, so maybe we should provide a NEWS entry or other documentation that
> this is now required.
Yes, I think that would be good.
Ian.
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