Control: tags -1 + help moreinfo Control: severity -1 important On 27.11.2016 08:38, Sven Joachim wrote: > Control: reassign -1 binutils 2.27.51.20161124-1 > Control: retitle -1 binutils: creates unbootable kernel on x86-64 > Control: severity -1 grave > > On 2016-11-26 15:13 +0100, Damien Wyart wrote: > >> After running further tests today, I think this is in fact *not* >> related to gcc but to the kernel itself. >> >> I tested all 6.2.1-X versions as well as gcc-5 (5.4.1-3) and all the >> kernels fail to boot (balck screen just after grub and nothing in the >> logs). > > Same here, downgrading binutils to 2.27.51.20161118-2 helped. I'm > reassigning the bug and bumping the severity, since several people have > observed the problem.
The original report talks about a 4.4 problem on , which afaik is superseded in unstable by newever versions released after the GCC 6 release. This is now made a binutils RC issue for building a kernel which is not in the archive anymore. Please could you validate that the issue exists with the linux package in unstable as well?