[kernel-xen] error 13: invalid or unsupported executable format

Colin Durrant colin at colins-it.co.uk
Sat Jan 10 10:57:40 AEDT 2015


Ok thanks - I shall look into it. We are using IBM x3750 servers...

Thanks and kind regards

Colin
Colins IT Ltd
www.colins-it.co.uk
@colinsit

> On 9 Jan 2015, at 23:29, Steven Haigh <netwiz at crc.id.au> wrote:
> 
> Probably - depending if you can disable EFI in the BIOS and use legacy
> booting. You'll have to reinstall the OS after changing this setting
> (not an upgrade).
> 
> I'm not sure if anyone here uses an EFI based boot system that can test
> - but it would be nice to know... I don't have any EFI based hardware
> that I can test with...
> 
>> On 10/01/2015 9:09 AM, Colin Durrant wrote:
>> Am I able to use a different server rather than EFI?
>> 
>> Thanks and kind regards
>> 
>> Colin
>> Colins IT Ltd
>> www.colins-it.co.uk
>> @colinsit
>> 
>>> On 9 Jan 2015, at 21:16, Steven Haigh <netwiz at crc.id.au> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I'm wondering if this is to do with EFI....
>>> 
>>> Does anyone else on the list use an EFI booting server as a Xen Dom0?
>>> 
>>>> On 9/01/2015 5:18 PM, Colin Durrant wrote:
>>>> Any ideas on this?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks and kind regards
>>>> 
>>>> Colin
>>>> Colins IT Ltd
>>>> www.colins-it.co.uk
>>>> @colinsit
>>>> 
>>>>> On 8 Jan 2015, at 06:40, Colin Durrant <colin at colins-it.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> OK, so grub.conf is not saved in /boot/grub for some reason
>>>>> 
>>>>> It is here - /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/
>>>>> 
>>>>> # grub.conf generated by anaconda
>>>>> #
>>>>> # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
>>>>> # NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
>>>>> #          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
>>>>> #          root (hd0,1)
>>>>> #          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_xen2-lv_root
>>>>> #          initrd /initrd-[generic-]version.img
>>>>> #boot=/dev/sdd1
>>>>> device (hd0) HD(1,800,64000,c2b17ae2-c245-47f4-b33b-667df64cbf32)
>>>>> default=1
>>>>> timeout=15
>>>>> splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>>>>> hiddenmenu
>>>>> title Scientific Linux (2.6.32-504.3.3.el6.x86_64)
>>>>>      root (hd0,1)
>>>>>      kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-504.3.3.el6.x86_64 ro
>>>>> root=/dev/mapper/vg_xen2-lv_root rd_NO_LUKS  KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=uk
>>>>> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd_LVM_LV=vg_xen2/lv_swap rd_NO_MD
>>>>> SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 crashkernel=128M rd_LVM_LV=vg_xen2/lv_root
>>>>> rd_NO_DM rhgb quiet
>>>>>      initrd /initramfs-2.6.32-504.3.3.el6.x86_64.img
>>>>> title Scientific Linux (3.14.27-1.el6xen.x86_64)
>>>>>      root (hd0,1)
>>>>>      kernel /xen.gz dom0_mem=1024M cpufreq=xen dom0_max_vcpus=1
>>>>> dom0_vcpus_pin
>>>>>      module /vmlinuz-3.14.27-1.el6xen.x86_64 ro
>>>>> root=/dev/mapper/vg_xen2-lv_root rd_NO_LUKS  KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=uk
>>>>> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd_LVM_LV=vg_xen2/lv_swap rd_NO_MD
>>>>> SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 crashkernel=128M rd_LVM_LV=vg_xen2/lv_root
>>>>> rd_NO_DM rhgb quiet
>>>>>      module /initramfs-3.14.27-1.el6xen.x86_64.img
>>>>> title Scientific Linux 6 (2.6.32-504.el6.x86_64)
>>>>>      root (hd0,1)
>>>>>      kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-504.el6.x86_64 ro
>>>>> root=/dev/mapper/vg_xen2-lv_root rd_NO_LUKS  KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=uk
>>>>> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd_LVM_LV=vg_xen2/lv_swap rd_NO_MD
>>>>> SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 crashkernel=128M rd_LVM_LV=vg_xen2/lv_root
>>>>> rd_NO_DM rhgb quiet
>>>>>      initrd /initramfs-2.6.32-504.el6.x86_64.img
>>>>> 
>>>>> title Scientific Linux 6 (2.6.32-504.el6.x86_64)
>>>>>      root (hd0,1)
>>>>>      kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-504.el6.x86_64 ro
>>>>> root=/dev/mapper/vg_xen2-lv_root rd_NO_LUKS  KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=uk
>>>>> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd_LVM_LV=vg_xen2/lv_swap rd_NO_MD
>>>>> SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 crashkernel=128M rd_LVM_LV=vg_xen2/lv_root
>>>>> rd_NO_DM rhgb quiet
>>>>>      initrd /initramfs-2.6.32-504.el6.x86_64.img
>>>>> fer making changes to this file
>>>>> # NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
>>>>> #          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
>>>>> #          root (hd0,1)
>>>>> #          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_xen2-lv_root
>>>>> #          initrd /initrd-[generic-]version.img
>>>>> #boot=/dev/sdd1
>>>>> device (hd0) HD(1,800,64000,c2b17ae2-c245-47f4-b33b-667df64cbf32)
>>>>> default=1
>>>>> timeout=15
>>>>> splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>>>>> hiddenmenu
>>>>> title Scientific Linux (2.6.32-504.3.3.el6.x86_64)
>>>>>      root (hd0,1)
>>>>>      kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-504.3.3.el6.x86_64 ro
>>>>> root=/dev/mapper/vg_xen2-lv_root rd_NO_LUKS  KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=uk
>>>>> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd_LVM_LV=vg_xen2/lv_swap rd_NO_MD
>>>>> SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 crashkernel=128M rd_LVM_LV=vg_xen2/lv_root
>>>>> rd_NO_DM rhgb quiet
>>>>>      initrd /initramfs-2.6.32-504.3.3.el6.x86_64.img
>>>>> title Scientific Linux (3.14.27-1.el6xen.x86_64)
>>>>>      root (hd0,1)
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Directory listing of boot
>>>>> 
>>>>> [root at xen2 boot]# ls
>>>>> config-2.6.32-504.3.3.el6.x86_64           symvers-2.6.32-504.el6.x86_64.gz
>>>>> config-2.6.32-504.el6.x86_64
>>>>> symvers-3.14.27-1.el6xen.x86_64.gz
>>>>> config-3.14.27-1.el6xen.x86_64
>>>>> System.map-2.6.32-504.3.3.el6.x86_64
>>>>> efi                                        System.map-2.6.32-504.el6.x86_64
>>>>> grub               
>>>>> System.map-3.14.27-1.el6xen.x86_64
>>>>> initramfs-2.6.32-504.3.3.el6.x86_64.img
>>>>> vmlinuz-2.6.32-504.3.3.el6.x86_64
>>>>> initramfs-2.6.32-504.el6.x86_64.img        vmlinuz-2.6.32-504.el6.x86_64
>>>>> initramfs-3.14.27-1.el6xen.x86_64.img      vmlinuz-3.14.27-1.el6xen.x86_64
>>>>> initrd-2.6.32-504.3.3.el6.x86_64kdump.img  xen-4.2.5.gz
>>>>> initrd-2.6.32-504.el6.x86_64kdump.img      xen-4.2.gz
>>>>> lost+found                                 xen.gz
>>>>> symvers-2.6.32-504.3.3.el6.x86_64.gz       xen-syms-4.2.5
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks...
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 07/01/2015 23:06, "Steven Haigh" <netwiz at crc.id.au> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Ok, first things first, post your /boot/grub/grub.conf, and a directory
>>>>>> listing of /boot/
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I'm guessing one of those is off with the fairies somehow....
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 8/01/2015 9:34 AM, Colin Durrant wrote:
>>>>>>> Yes, grub gave me the message on boot
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Thanks and kind regards
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Colin
>>>>>>> Colins IT Ltd
>>>>>>> www.colins-it.co.uk
>>>>>>> @colinsit
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> On 7 Jan 2015, at 22:10, Steven Haigh <netwiz at crc.id.au> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> On 8/01/2015 3:26 AM, Colin Durrant wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Hi
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> I am following these instructions
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> http://xen.crc.id.au/support/guides/install/
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> I then rebooted into the Xen kernel however I am getting the error
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Invalid magic number: 9090
>>>>>>>>> error 13: invalid or unsupported executable format
>>>>>>>>> Press any key to continue
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> What gave this? grub? something else?
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> -- 
>>>>>>>> Steven Haigh
>>>>>>>> 
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