Re: [REGRESSION] linux 6.6.18 and later fails to boot with "initramfs unpacking failed: invalid magic at start of compressed archive"

On Thu, 14 Mar 2024 at 19:32, Radek Podgorny radek@podgorny.cz wrote:

hi,

i seem to be the only one in the world to have this problem. :-(

on one of my machines, updating to 6.6.18 and later (including mainline branch) leads to unbootable system. all other computers are unaffected.

bisecting the history leads to:

commit 8117961d98fb2d335ab6de2cad7afb8b6171f5fe Author: Ard Biesheuvel ardb@kernel.org

Thanks for the report.

I'd like to get to the bottom of this if we can.

Please share as much information as you can about the system - boot logs - DMI data to identify the system and firmware etc - distro version - versions of boot components (shim, grub, systemd-boot, etc including config files) - other information that might help narrow this down.