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Talos II / Re: Ubuntu 20.04 5.4.0-167: kexec load failed

« on: November 09, 2025, 01:17:14 am »

I'm totally fine with the mods moving the thread if they feel there is a better location. 

Unfortunately though this problem has returned, and running

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update-initramfs is not resolving the issue. Booting the old kernel works, but of course I can't stay on the old kernel forever.

The problematic kernel in this case is: 6.8.0-87-generic



Anyone have any suggestions for additional debugging I could do?

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Talos II / Re: Ubuntu 20.04 5.4.0-167: kexec load failed

« on: November 28, 2023, 10:15:05 am »

That is great to hear! I was actually updating the system ahead of performing an upgrade to 22.04 LTS, so I'm glad that you've been able to run it.

I actually was able to solve this by running

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sudo update-initramfs -u -k 5.4.0-167-generic
and rebuilding the initial ramdisk, so maybe I had some kind of filesystem corruption, which is a bit concerning since the system has ECC memory and a UPS. 

Anyways thanks for the help everyone! I greatly appreciate it, and it is awesome to see people using these amazing machines.

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Talos II / Re: Ubuntu 20.04 5.4.0-167: kexec load failed

« on: November 28, 2023, 07:30:05 am »

Oh wow sorry I can't believe I forgot to include that; the new kernel that fails to boot is

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5.4.0-167-generic.

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Talos II / Ubuntu 20.04 5.4.0-167: kexec load failed

« on: November 27, 2023, 04:13:55 am »

Hey everyone! I've been rocking a Talos II system for a couple years now running Ubuntu 20.04. I just recently updated and rebooted it and was surprised when it didn't come back up. Looking at the serial output from the serial over LAN console showed this message when trying to boot the new kernel:

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kexec load failed: do_file_load: (-1) Function not implemented
Thankfully I was able to boot the previous kernel I was using (5.4.0-162-generic) and get into the system, but of course I don't want to stick with this kernel forever and I was actually hoping to upgrade the system to Ubuntu 22.04. Is this a problem with my petitboot configuration / version or an issue with the kernel itself? I'm running System Package v2.00 from the wiki. Other than this issue I've loved my experience with the Talos II!