John,
I was not aware that Grub played a role in decompressing a kernal at boot as that is a kernel function. I am running Grub 2.02 if that matters. What I should have mentioned in my first post is that "gzip" (of course) and "xz" work flawlessly in decompressing at boot, if selected. Regards, Andre En réponse à John-John Tedro <johnjohn.te...@gmail.com> : > ------------------ Début du message d'origine -------------------- > > 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. > > ------------------- Fin du message d'origine --------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/1414579398.5450c4c699...@lavache.alinto.com