Re: XZ compressed kernel broken?

[Randy Dunlap]

On 07/08/2018 12:38 PM, Felix von Leitner wrote:
> I could not get kernel 4.17 or up to boot on my laptop. I tried various
> things, started a new config from scratch on a freshly downloaded (not
> up-patched) source tree, to no avail.
> 
> Today I tried switching kernel compression from XZ to GZIP and now it
> boots fine.
> 
> Just as a PSA if your kernel just insta-resets after being loaded from
> grub.
> 
> Might be some kind of freak interdependency, didn't analyze further.

Hi,

I switched from gzip to XZ and tested 4.18-rc2.  It booted fine, no problems.

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~Randy