Bug#727736: Latest linux-image-686-pae fail to boot a xen domU
On Sat, 2013-10-26 at 05:57 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 01:12:56AM +0300, Regid Ichira wrote:
> > This version depends on linux-image-3.10-3-686-pae. I am the
> > client of a xen provider. Unfortuntely, because of that I don't have
> > many details. I think there is a similar problem with both Amazon
> > Web Service, and another provider. As far as I can tell, both sell
> > xen domU. 3.2.0-4-686-pae works for both. With Amazon and 3.9 or
> > 3.10, not sure which, I got The following last lines of the the
> > System Log:
>
> The Debian provided Linux kernels use XZ for its own compression. You
> need at least Xen 4.1.4, 4.2.0 or 4.1.3-7 to load them. (Or a new
> enough pv-grub, from Xen 4.3.0.)
>
> > I tried to run a self compiled kernel out of Debian source that
> > would be bzip, not xz.
>
> The only compression supported by Xen before the named versions was
> GZIP.
>
> There is no bug here in the Debian Linux package itself.
I think this is just like missing hardware support, which we consider an
important bug. And it's also a regression in support.
I don't know whether it is important enough to justify using less
efficient compression, but AWS is a very popular platform.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
Editing code like this is akin to sticking plasters on the bleeding stump
of a severed limb. - me, 29 June 1999
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