[syslinux] Booting new kernels

Alexey Orishko alexey.orishko at gmail.com
Sun May 18 12:12:26 PDT 2014


On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On 05/16/2014 01:35 PM, Tal Lubko wrote:
>> > > For some reason when I use kernel 3.7.1 and above the system crashes
> during boot and I have no reason why.
>> Consider a lack of init or otherwise improper initrd (cpio format,
> compression, etc). Consider trying your old kernel with new initrd and/or
> new kernel with old initrd to start diagnosis.
>>
>> --Gene
>
> [    0.000000] Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda1 initrd=rootfs.ext2
> console=ttyS0,115200 BOOT_IMAGE=bzImage
>
> [    0.297992] Unpacking initramfs...
> [    0.298619] Initramfs unpacking failed: junk in compressed archive
> [    0.299718] Freeing initrd memory: 5636k freed

If GPT used instead of MBR, no initrd required...

Regards,
Alexey


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