Re: Booting uncompressed kernel images

2016-02-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2016-02-05 at 15:52 +0100, Andreas Ziegler wrote: > Hi, > > please allow me to dive in here, i do have a very similar problem. > > one of my VPS is running on a providers host system, that seems to use > an old Xen version, which can't boot the Jessie-Kernel. > at the moment im using the

Re: Booting uncompressed kernel images

2016-02-05 Thread Andreas Ziegler
Hi, please allow me to dive in here, i do have a very similar problem. one of my VPS is running on a providers host system, that seems to use an old Xen version, which can't boot the Jessie-Kernel. at the moment im using the wheezy-Kernel on jessie, but that's not the best solution... do i have

Re: Booting uncompressed kernel images

2016-02-05 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2016-02-04 at 15:40 -0200, Tiago Ilieve wrote: > Sorry for the delay in my response. In the past couple days I was > confirming with Oracle if my findings (using virt-what, as you > suggested) where right and, indeed, they are supporting Xen HVM right > now. Great! > > So, there's no nee

Re: Booting uncompressed kernel images

2016-02-04 Thread Tiago Ilieve
Ian, On 2 February 2016 at 15:32, Ian Campbell wrote: > Yes, although I think/suspect that my 47B4 is created by binwalk > decompressing 47B4.xz as a convenience. > > (...) > > This looks like a file which I would expect to be bootable as a Xen PV > guest. Using "readelf -n" should show lots of:

Re: Booting uncompressed kernel images

2016-02-02 Thread Tiago Ilieve
Hi Ian, On 2 February 2016 at 09:24, Ian Campbell wrote: > Did you see my other replies on debian-kernel yesterday? There are some > questions there which it would be useful to know the answers to. It turned out that I though that I was subscribed to "debian-kernel@l.d.o", but I wasn't. This is

Re: Booting uncompressed kernel images

2016-02-02 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2016-02-02 at 15:18 -0200, Tiago Ilieve wrote: > Hi Ian, > > On 2 February 2016 at 09:24, Ian Campbell wrote: > > Did you see my other replies on debian-kernel yesterday? There are some > > questions there which it would be useful to know the answers to. > > It turned out that I though t

Re: Booting uncompressed kernel images

2016-02-02 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2016-02-01 at 23:31 -0200, Tiago Ilieve wrote: > > PS I have also found binwalk [2] useful when examining contents of > > compressed kernel > > apt-get install binwalk > > Thanks for the tip - although I got a little bit surprised with so > many dependencies in what should be a simple comm

Re: Booting uncompressed kernel images

2016-02-01 Thread Tiago Ilieve
Hi Jose, I'm dropping off the cc of "debian-cloud at l.d.o", because this is really a kernel matter, so I see no reason for cross-posting. I can post the outcome in there when we reach a solution. On 1 February 2016 at 08:37, Jose R R wrote: > Does the kernel boot after after you rebuild it with

Re: Booting uncompressed kernel images

2016-02-01 Thread Jose R R
On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 12:03 AM, Tiago Ilieve wrote: > Hi, > > I have a scenario[1] where the default Linux kernel compressed with XZ > (from Jessie and up) cannot be booted. The first thing that I've tried > was to uncompress it using "extract-linux"[2] and it didn't worked by > the time, so I de

Re: Booting uncompressed kernel images

2016-02-01 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2016-02-01 at 10:06 +, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Mon, 2016-02-01 at 06:03 -0200, Tiago Ilieve wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a scenario[1] where the default Linux kernel compressed with XZ > > (from Jessie and up) cannot be booted. The first thing that I've tried > > was to uncompress it

Re: Booting uncompressed kernel images

2016-02-01 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2016-02-01 at 06:03 -0200, Tiago Ilieve wrote: > Hi, > > I have a scenario[1] where the default Linux kernel compressed with XZ > (from Jessie and up) cannot be booted. The first thing that I've tried > was to uncompress it using "extract-linux"[2] and it didn't worked by > the time, so I

Booting uncompressed kernel images

2016-02-01 Thread Tiago Ilieve
Hi, I have a scenario[1] where the default Linux kernel compressed with XZ (from Jessie and up) cannot be booted. The first thing that I've tried was to uncompress it using "extract-linux"[2] and it didn't worked by the time, so I decided to rebuild the entire "linux-image-*" package changing "CON