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Bug#958311: cloud kernel 5.5.0-2 does not boot under xen



Hi,

On Thursday, 9 June 2022 13:00:30 CEST Aleksi Suhonen wrote:
> On 07/06/2022 16:36, Diederik de Haas wrote:
> > Can you still reproduce this issue on a more recent kernel (5.10 or
> > later)?
> 
> 5.10 and many later kernels still have this issue. I haven't tried 5.17
> or 5.18, but I suspect they still do.

I think that's a reasonable assumption.

> The underlying problem is that the cloud kernel is compressed with an
> algorithm that grub can't uncompress. What I've been doing as a
> workaround is that I decompress the kernel myself in a kernel install hook.

That's quite a bit of important new info!
This could mean that the problem is actually in grub?

> Dom0 package versions on the test machine:
> 
> ii  grub-xen-host		2.02+dfsg1-9
> ii  linux-image-4.18.0-3-amd64	4.18.20-2
> ii  xen-hypervisor-4.11-amd64	4.11.1~pre.20180911.5acdd26fdc+dfsg-5

Have you upgraded your Dom0 to Stable? That has grub 2.04-20, kernel 5.10 and 
Xen version 4.14.x and that may just fix the issue.

I haven't used the cloud kernel myself, but I do have a machine running Xen 
and the compression used for cloud kernels is (AFAIK) the same as for 'normal' 
kernels and I never have problems booting domU's (apart from when I mess 
things up myself ;-P).

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