Re: Can't boot kernel 6.17.4+ via rEFInd

Eugene Shalygin
2025-10-29T20:07:35Z

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Hi Nathan,

On Tue, 28 Oct 2025 at 18:45, Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> wrote:
> > Replacing CONFIG_KERNEL_ZSTD with CONFIG_KERNEL_GZIP made the kernel
> > bootable. What does that mean?
>
> Hmmmm, I am not sure... That seems rather odd within the context of the
> flagged change.

Huh! The fourth of my machines with the similar config (also fully
updated ~amd64 Gentoo) with rEFind boots kernel 6.17.5 with
CONFIG_KERNEL_ZSTD enabled.

> Could you post the output of 'readelf -S vmlinux vmlinux.unstripped'
> from the broken and good builds?

Attached.

> Does rEFInd have any sort of additional
> debugging to see why/what it is complaining about not being able to
> find?

No, unfortunately. However, I was unable to find the first part of the
error message ("Not Found") in the rEFInd sources.

Cheers,
Eugene

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