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Re: [PATCH] grub2 should not unzip Linux initramfs
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Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] grub2 should not unzip Linux initramfs |
Date: |
Tue, 12 Nov 2013 21:03:51 +0100 |
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Committed, thanks.
On 12.11.2013 11:25, Lukas Schwaighofer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the initramfs protocol (see [1]) supports multiple concatenated archives.
>
> Because of grub2's implicit unzipping of gz-compressed multiboot
> modules, a valid initramfs-file (e.g. in my case containing of two
> concatenated gz-files) may be rendered unbootable.
>
> I have attached the trivial patch adding --nounzip to the the
> appropriate module-directive when generating XEN boot entries. As this
> resembles the behavior when booting without XEN (using the grub2
> commands linux and initrd) more closely I don't expect any problems.
>
> I have reported this to the Debian bugtracker before [2] with no
> response, but I suppose this is the correct point to report this issue.
>
> Thank you
> Lukas
>
>
> [1]
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/early-userspace/buffer-format.txt
> [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=700197
>
>
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