From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050416 Fedora/1.0.3-2 Firefox/1.0.3 Description of problem: Hello Since the update to rawhide20050427 I'm unable to boot the system with any kernel, including the most recent 1276 build, except 2.6.11-1.1240_FC4 which works ok. Higher builds of the kernel throw the "Invalid compressed format" error. I was able to boot 126x kernels before the update. I tried to revert back initscripts an mkinitrd packages to 8.07-1.x86_64 and 4.2.8-1.x86_64 respectively, but this didn't solve the problem. I also disabled SELinux and checked my file system with reiserfsck but this didn't help either. My system specs are below: CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Motherboard: MSI K8T Neo2 Platinum HDD: Seagate ST3200822A and WDC WD1200JB - both connected to the standard IDE controller. File system: reiserfs on all partitions inluding /boot Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.11-1.1276_FC4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Turn on the computer 2. Select any kernel in GRUB (except 1240) 3. Boot selected kernel Actual Results: Error message "System halted" "Invalid Comressed format (err=1)" Expected Results: system startup Additional info: [root@athlon64 ~]# rpm -q mkinitrd mkinitrd-4.2.9-1 [root@athlon64 ~]# rpm -q initscripts initscripts-8.09-1 [root@athlon64 ~]# rpm -q kernel kernel-2.6.11-1.1240_FC4 kernel-2.6.11-1.1251_FC4 kernel-2.6.11-1.1253_FC4 kernel-2.6.11-1.1258_FC4 kernel-2.6.11-1.1261_FC4 kernel-2.6.11-1.1267_FC4 kernel-2.6.11-1.1268_FC4 kernel-2.6.11-1.1275_FC4 kernel-2.6.11-1.1276_FC4 [root@athlon64 ~]# rpm -q grub grub-0.95-12
can you try running memtest for a while ? This smells like bad memory. Especially as this is the only instance of this we've seen reported, and I've personally run all recent x86-64 kernels on several different models.
Ok, I'll do the testing when I get back home from work. I doubt that it's a memory problem because it happened just right after 04/27 rawhide update and the before the update all the kernels booted up correctly. I suspect it's caused by reiserfs as /boot fielsystem..
Hello again :-) Memtest passsed sucessfully, so that's not the RAM issue. I played with kernels installed and discovered that suddenly 1275 boots ok (it was failing when I checked it after the 04/27 update). Some of my kernels give slightly different error messges but all of them seem to be realtd to the compressed kernel image. Builds 1251 and 1268 throw the following error: Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format. Build 1261: RAMDISK: ran out of compressed data Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount fs on unknown-block(22,2) The rest of my kernels throw just the "Invalid compressed format" message. I'll perform clean reinstall of my system after FC4T3 comes out because I have too much mess on my system which, I think, is the cause of the problems.
Update I have just made a clean install of FC4T3 and kernel image decompressess correctly, however right after that it karshes with the following message: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(22,2) Now, I'm going to make another attempt, but I will change filesystem to ext3 on /boot
Ok, I'm back with good news :-) Changing the filesystem to ext3 solved the problem. Another little thing that has been fixed by the filesystem change was that I was able to see the splash image in grub - I had a black background before on reiserfs after one of rawhide updates on FC4T2.
i can duplicate this also. i opened a more specific bug for this - #159123
since this is reiserfs specific this should be closed WONTFIX same as 159123.
This sounds like the initrd is corrupt. Can somebody do this with one that didn't work: mkdir tmp cd tmp zcat /boot/initrd-VERSION | cpio -dvi and see if it actually works?
reiserfs bugs should be reported in http://bugme.osdl.org Fedora will inherit any fixes that occur upstream on rebases to newer kernels.
sadly few kernel developers appear to read bugme.osdl.org