Hi Alex, On Fri, 2024-11-22 at 23:56 -0800, Alex Winbow wrote: > I have been unable to boot kernels after 6.4; aboot fails with > "unzip: unknown compression method". Specifically: > > - vmlinuz-6.4.0-1-alpha-generic --> works > - vmlinuz-6.6.15-alpha-generic --> fails > - vmlinuz-6.11.6-alpha-generic --> fails > > This is on a XP1000 (EV67/Tsunami/Monet). aboot is > 1.0~pre20200212-1. FWIW, "gzip -l --verbose" says all kernels are > compressed with the same method: > > $gzip -l --verbose vmlinuz-6* > method crc date time compressed uncompressed ratio > uncompressed_name > defla 2ad47e09 Nov 4 13:57 7010635 24244720 71.1% > vmlinuz-6.11.6-alpha-generic > defla 148fa7ac Jul 22 23:53 6814008 23614088 71.1% > vmlinuz-6.4.0-1-alpha-generic > defla 30836626 Feb 4 12:28 7045662 24145360 70.8% > vmlinuz-6.6.15-alpha-generic > > Did something more subtle change in compression in between kernel > 6.4 and 6.6?
Maybe the kernel has become just too large for aboot to decompress it? I am planning to work on aboot in the near future and bring the package back into shape. I will also look into this particular issue then, so thanks for reporting it. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
