10 May
2020
10 May
'20
3:14 p.m.
On Thu, 7 May 2020, Andy Smith wrote:
My question to you is, if I made the BitFolk Xen Shell
installer for
Ubuntu 20.04 install such an apt hook so that it automatically
decompressed LZ4 kernels, would that be an acceptable state to
consider Ubuntu 20.04 officially supported at BitFolk?
It sounds like a reasonable solution to me.
However I have to admit the boot process is voodoo to me so I may not
understand the downsides of such a solution.
What would you be thinking the first time you did a
kernel upgrade
and saw apt call an extra script to decompress the kernel?
To be honest I doubt I'd notice.
At the moment Ubuntu 20.04 is not listed on the
BitFolk web site as
available, nor is there an installer for it in the Xen Shell,
because of the need to decompress its kernel. It is only possible to
install it by upgrade from an earlier release or by use of the
Rescue VM - and then you need to take care of the kernel yourself.
My current plan for finally moving away from 32 bit is to do a fresh 64
bit install of 20.04 and I've been waiting for 20.04 for about 9 months to
execute this plan. So I'm keen to see 20.04 supported but having waited
this long if I have to wait another 3 months it probably doesn't matter.
If it ends up that 20.04 won't be supported for years (or ever) then I'll
have to reconsider my migration plan.
Andy