Re: Strange vmlinuz with 2.6.18-4-xen-vserver-686

[Nate Carlson <debian-kernel@natecarlson.com>]

On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> I've just done an apt-get dist-upgrade to the release Etch (wohoo!), and 
> I'm starting to dabble with Vserver a bit, so I installed the 
> xen-vserver kernel.
>
> Funny thing is - I can't convince Grub that it's a kernel image -- it 
> says
>
>      Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format.
>
> Every other kernel image, including the non-vserver 2.6.18-4 is ok, but 
> vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-xen-vserver-686 looks odd.
>
> - `file` reports for /boot/vmlinuz repors a type of "Linux kernel x68
> boot executable RO-rootFS, <bla bla>". For the xen-vserver vmlinuz it
> says "gzip compressed data".
>
> - debsums linux-image-2.6.18-4-xen-vserver-686 reports OK for all the files.
>
> Smells like a bug, but I might be doing something stupid here. Any
> suggestions?

This is a Xen kernel -- you need to boot it via the Xen hypervisor.

If you want the non-Xen vserver kernel, install 
linux-image-2.6.18-4-vserver-686.

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