Surface Pro 4 stuck on init.xz... ok

[Psycholiquid]

Resolved by dropping the kernel back down to 4.12.3.

This allows the Surface to make it past the init.xz… ok

Now stuck on Fatal kernel to old.

Will play with them more to see what I can get.

[Sebastian Roth]

@psycholiquid said in Surface Pro 4 stuck on init.xz... ok:

Now stuck on Fatal kernel to old.

You probably had older init.xz/init_32.xz files too?! Can you recover just those files (kernels and initrds) from your snapshot and give it a try?

[Psycholiquid]

@sebastian-roth I was able to recover but it crashed on Fatal Error kernel to old

[Psycholiquid]

I have tried updating the Surface firmware but so far no dice. Trying another update this morning

[Sebastian Roth]

@Psycholiquid Did you recover only the kernel (bzImage/bzImage32) or initrds (init.xz/init_32.xz) as well?

[Psycholiquid]

@Sebastian-Roth yeah I got it working after updating the firmware to the latest version, it will boot and image but the refind-EFI is giving me troubles now. trying to find a way around it, GRUB doesn’t seem to work nor Does exit.

Ill post up the configuration and firmware versions once completed so everyone will know how to do it

[Psycholiquid]

@Sebastian-Roth I recovered both, figured the init.xz is only the virtual HDD right and the bzimage is the actually loading OS.

[Psycholiquid]

@sebastian-roth But I am using kernel 15.12 and it seems to be working all but the refind UEFI

[Psycholiquid]

Ok replaced the refind.efi with the latest 0.11.3 and made a change to the conf file and it is all owrking now.

Good job on fixing the dock issue with Surfaces, I can now image without using a seperate dongle.

So here is the steps I used to fix the issue:

1. upgraded to 1.5.4
2. Replaced bzimage and init.xz using kernel 4.15.2 and init.xz form my old version of FOG (@Sebastian-Roth custom)
3. Replaced refind.efi with verion 0.11.3 and edited out the scanfor line of the conf.

This seemed to get everything straight. So I think we are good.

[Psycholiquid]

@psycholiquid I was able to resolve the refinduefi issue with the HP ProDesk 400s by pulling the old refind.conf file from the backup fog server and reverting refind.efi to version 0.11.0