[syslinux] I/O error

Anton Gerasimov anton at advancedtelematic.com
Tue Mar 21 03:07:33 PDT 2017


Thanks Ady,

tried current master and shortened path to /boot/vmlinuz. Same stuff.
OSTree doesn't really come into play at this stage, it is just booting
the kernel. So I would rather suspect that there is something between
ext4, extlinux and qemu.


On 03/21/2017 04:01 AM, Ady Ady via Syslinux wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to make Syslinux, OSTree and Qemu work together. So I've made
>> an image, installed Syslinux v. 6.0.3 on it with extlinux and try to
>> boot it. Unfortunately it stops on the stage of loading the kernel with
>>
>>   Loading
>> /boot/ostree/agl-17980142f6d5ef5e82153aa533ffb9775181f93248e62a4821f925cdf1b81c34/vmlinuz...
>> failed: I/O error
>>
>> The vmlinuz file is just a normal bzImage (v. 4.4.36).
>>
>> It looks like a whole debugging adventure lies before me, so if someone
>> could give me some hints of what could possibly be wrong, or where can I
>> look into before starting to insert 'printf's here and there, I would be
>> very grateful.
>>
>  
> Have you considered... 6.04-pre1? latest git master head? limitations 
> on filesystem support? trying first a simple basic environment (instead 
> of introducing additional components such as OSTree)? shorter paths? 
> upstream official binaries? potential building/compilation 
> interactions?
>
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