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[mk01]

(17th Jul, 2013 06:25 AM)IriDium Wrote:  Performed the upgrade and all seemed to go well. Rebooted - and alas - Nothing. Just a cursor on the top left of the screen. RPi shows only steady RED light. Oh well. Will give it another go later.

iridium, don't complicate things for yourself if you see like this, you don't have waste time with ref-lashing starting from scratch.

the probable reason for that is
- kernel is loaded
- initramfs is not

recently I changed initramfs to be compressed with gzip instead of xz. older version of kernel could decompress xz only.

did you upgrade all packages, including initramfs package & kernel ? or you upgraded initramfs, it recreated initramfs at boot with older kernel, not able to decompress gzip?

there is always one backup copy of initreamfs at /boot, ju try rename initramfs.gz.old to initramfs.gz

worst case, just take http://ivka57.dyndns-ip.com/boot.tar.gz and unpack to /boot. it should boot and provide usual tasks.

if not yet, install the kernel package. corresponding initramfs will be created automatically.

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(17th Jul, 2013 06:47 AM)mk01 Wrote:  

(17th Jul, 2013 06:25 AM)IriDium Wrote:  Performed the upgrade and all seemed to go well. Rebooted - and alas - Nothing. Just a cursor on the top left of the screen. RPi shows only steady RED light. Oh well. Will give it another go later.

iridium, don't complicate things for yourself if you see like this, you don't have waste time with ref-lashing starting from scratch.

the probable reason for that is
- kernel is loaded
- initramfs is not

recently I changed initramfs to be compressed with gzip instead of xz. older version of kernel could decompress xz only.

did you upgrade all packages, including initramfs package & kernel ? or you upgraded initramfs, it recreated initramfs at boot with older kernel, not able to decompress gzip?

there is always one backup copy of initreamfs at /boot, ju try rename initramfs.gz.old to initramfs.gz

worst case, just take http://ivka57.dyndns-ip.com/boot.tar.gz and unpack to /boot. it should boot and provide usual tasks.

if not yet, install the kernel package. corresponding initramfs will be created automatically.

anyhow you inspired me to check dynamically against /boot/system.map for kernel compress/decompression routines. and do it according this.