Booting Grml ISO results in `Reloc 0 block size 2756420659 is invalid`
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Description
On the two Dell laptops XPS 13 9360 and 9370 and with OVMF and QEMU the Grml live image cannot be started from a USB device.
The error on the Dell display is:
Reloc 0 block size 2756420659 is invalid
Relocation failed: Unsupported
Failed to load image: Unsupported
start_image() returned Unsupported
With OVMF I only get the first two lines.
Here is how you can reproduce this with QEMU.
Download the Grml ISO file, and follow How to run OVMF in the Wiki. I downloaded Gerd’s prebuilt images and extracted them.
Then I did mkdir hda-contents and run QEMU with the command below.
qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -bios edk2.git/ovmf-x64/OVMF-pure-efi.fd -hda fat:hda-contents -net none -hdb ~/Downloads/grml64-full_sid_latest.iso
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Reproduce the failure using the Grml ISO, the documented QEMU command, and the referenced OVMF images. Compare the Dell and OVMF error output and trace the image-loading failure; done means the Grml live image boots from the USB-device setup on the affected systems.
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