On 29 Oct 2014 10:29, "Andre Massena" <andre_mass...@lavache.com> wrote: > > Hello all, > > > having trawled through several search engines and perused various Debian > lists, I am still in the dark... > > I am running Debian Jessie (Kernel 3.17.1) on a Thinkpad X230. I would like > to use LZ4 to compress/decompress the kernel on booting. > As per apt-get, the release of liblz4-1 I am running is r122-2. > > I have the following kernel settings - > > CONFIG_HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4=y > CONFIG_KERNEL_LZ4=y > CONFIG_KERNEL_LZ4=y > CONFIG_ZRAM_LZ4_COMPRESS=y > CONFIG_CRYPTO_LZ4=y > CONFIG_CRYPTO_LZ4HC=y > CONFIG_LZ4_COMPRESS=y > CONFIG_LZ4HC_COMPRESS=y > CONFIG_LZ4_DECOMPRESS=y > CONFIG_DECOMPRESS_LZ4=y > > in /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d I have a file called "lz4" which contains the > line > COMPRESS=lz4c. > I subsequently run update-initramfs with the appropriate switches and reboot. >
I believe this causes the initramfs image to be compressed differently. It would then seem that your boot loader is unable to decompress it. > > Result is a "initramfs unpacking failed: junk in compiled archive" message > at boot. > > > Does anyone have an idea what I might have done wrong/incorrect or indeed > any pointers? > > > > Regards, > > > > Andre > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > www.lavache.com : l'email gratuit sans pub, vachement meuh. > www.hugolescargot.com : coloriage, fiches recettes et bricolage, chansons, etc. > www.jeux-gratuits.com : des jeux en ligne pour toute la famille. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1414574536.5450b1c823...@lavache.alinto.com > My guess is that your version/variant of grub (or lilo) doesn't understand lz4.
