Bug#903800: linux-image-4.9.0-7-amd64: general protection fault / kernel panic at boot

[Robby <robbyke@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I may be running into the same issue here, running Xen.

I say "may", because after I updated to Debian 9.5 and linux
4.9.0-7-amd64, the server/Dom0 did not come back up after a reboot, and
I had to request a manual reboot from datacenter staff. The staff did
not provide any more error details from the console other than that the
OS failed to boot. I also did not find anything useful or relevant in
logs, so I cannot provide more information.

They rebooted it into a rescue-mode for me to login and fix it, from
there I made grub boot Xen with the previous linux 4.9.0-6-amd64 kernel
and the system came back up normally.

The Xen virtual machines/DomUs themselves, however, do seem to run just
fine with linux 4.9.0-7-amd64.