On 2014-10-29 10:22, Andre Massena 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. > > > 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 > Hi Andre,
looks like the kernel is using an older, less standardized format for its lz4 compression. Use the -l switch on lz4c for linux kernel support. See the lz4 man page and https://code.google.com/p/lz4/issues/detail?id=66#c2 Regards Vanessa -- 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/54512bf3.20...@ulukai.org
