From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE216C3279B for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2018 19:46:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64E3F208D9 for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2018 19:46:57 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 64E3F208D9 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=fefe.de Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754289AbeGHTot (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jul 2018 15:44:49 -0400 Received: from qarx.de ([31.15.64.162]:53089 "EHLO a.mx.fefe.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754138AbeGHTos (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jul 2018 15:44:48 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 400 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2018 15:44:48 EDT Received: (qmail 7445 invoked by uid 638); 8 Jul 2018 19:38:05 -0000 Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2018 21:38:05 +0200 From: Felix von Leitner To: LKML Subject: XZ compressed kernel broken? Message-ID: <20180708193805.GA5389@qarx.de> Mail-Followup-To: LKML MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.5 (2018-04-13) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I could not get kernel 4.17 or up to boot on my laptop. I tried various things, started a new config from scratch on a freshly downloaded (not up-patched) source tree, to no avail. Today I tried switching kernel compression from XZ to GZIP and now it boots fine. Just as a PSA if your kernel just insta-resets after being loaded from grub. Might be some kind of freak interdependency, didn't analyze further. Felix