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Run standard Ubuntu Kernels on Scaleway x86_64 Ubuntu instances
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Scaleway is great but I've grown tired of theier old home-brewed kernels with
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missing modules and features. Why not use standard Ubuntu kernels instead?
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With this package you can use standard Ubuntu kernels on your Scaleway x86_64
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instances by the magic of KEXEC.
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Requirements
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Just make sure your current Scaleway kernel has KEXEC support.
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E.g. 4.8.14 std #2 bootscript. You can adjust this via the
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bootscript setting in the Advanced section of the cloud.scaleway.com interface.
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Install
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1. get a the package:
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2. Get some Ubuntu kernel. E.g. current mainline kernels from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline:
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`` curl -O http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.10.3/linux-image-4.10.3-041003-generic_4.10.3-041003.201703142331_amd64.deb``
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1. Make sure your system is up-to-date and get the Ubuntu package:
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``curl -O https://github.com/stuffo/scaleway-ubuntukernel/releases/download/v1.0/scaleway-ubuntukernel_1.0-1_amd64.deb ``
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2. You skip this step if you already installed any kernel package providing linux-image. Otherwise, get some Ubuntu kernel.
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E.g. current mainline kernels from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline:
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``curl -O http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.10.3/linux-image-4.10.3-041003-generic_4.10.3-041003.201703142331_amd64.deb``
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``apt install ./linux-image-4.10.3-041003-generic_4.10.3-041003.201703142331_amd64.deb ``
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3. Install this package and current kernel:
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`` apt install ./scaleway-ubuntukernel_1.0-1_amd64.deb ./linux-image-4.10.3-041003-generic_4.10.3-041003.201703142331_amd64.deb ``
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``apt install ./scaleway-ubuntukernel_1.0-1_amd64.deb ``
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4. Disable Ubuntu kexec service (required as it is incompatible with this)
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`` systemctl disable kexec && reboot ``
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Manual Install
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1. You need a Scaleway base kernel that has KEXEC support. E.g. 4.8.14 std #2. You can adjust this via
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the bootscript setting in the Advanced section of the cloud.scaleway.com interface.
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2. Install some Ubuntu kernel. E.g. current kernels from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline:
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`` curl -O http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.10.3/linux-image-4.10.3-041003-generic_4.10.3-041003.201703142331_amd64.deb && sudo dpkg -i linux-image-4.10.3-041003-generic_4.10.3-041003.201703142331_amd64.deb``
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3. Install kexec-tools package and disable kexec, otherwise kexec gets executed to early:
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``systemctl disable kexec.service``
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4. Copy ubuntukernel-load.sh to /usr/bin/
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5. Copy debian/scaleway-ubuntukernel.service to /etc/systemd/system/
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6. Enable ubuntukernel-load.service:
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``systemctl enable ubuntukernel-load.service``
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7. Reboot. System will reboot with the Scaleway kernel and kexec into the Ubuntu kernel while booting.
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Debugging
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You can run ubuntukernel-load.sh manually as root. It is quite verbose. Be
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aware that your system will reboot (kexec) if all went fine.
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Build
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Make sure you have at least build-essential and devscripts installed.
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1. clone repo ``git clone``
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2. run debuild to build debian package
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``debuild -i -us -uc -b``
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TODO
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* create deb package
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* automatically determine scaleway initrd version
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* account scaleway initrd version for automatic initrd regeneration on change
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