Hello to Everyone,

I recently installed OpenSuSE 12.1 and I want to experiment with the xen
kernel.I down-loaded the xen kernel from the OpenSuSE repository. When I tried
to boot into it, I got the following message:

ERROR 13: invalid or unsupported executable format

[ Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83] ###(Part of Error message)

Would someone suggest how to correct for this error? Thank you.




I am going to send some information along with this request in case it might be
useful:

This is some of the out-put of fdisk -l:
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders, total 156301488 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000028ef

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1              63     4209029     2104483+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2         4209030    46154744    20972857+  83  Linux
/dev/sda3        46154745   114350668    34097962   83  Linux
/dev/sda4   *   114352128   156301311    20974592    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5       114354176   131123199     8384512   83  Linux
/dev/sda6       131125248   156280831    12577792   83  Linux


This is some of the out-put of etc/fstab:
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST380021A_3HV32KHZ-part1 swap                 swap       defaults              0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST380021A_3HV32KHZ-part5 /                    ext4       acl,user_xattr        1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST380021A_3HV32KHZ-part6 /home                ext4       acl,user_xattr        1 2
proc                 /proc                proc       defaults              0 0
sysfs                /sys                 sysfs      noauto                0 0
debugfs              /sys/kernel/debug    debugfs    noauto                0 0
devpts               /dev/pts             devpts     mode=0620,gid=5       0 0
~
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From these two items, the fifth partition is root and has a ext4 filesystem.

I tried re-writing the boot loader a couple times, but I still got the error message. This is
out-put from /boot/grub/menu.lst:

original from rpm download
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: xen###
title Xen -- openSUSE 12.1 - 3.1.10-1.9
    root (hd0,4)
    kernel /boot/xen.gz vga=mode-0x317 
    module /boot/vmlinuz-3.1.10-1.9-xen root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST380021A_3HV32KHZ-part5 
resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST380021A_3HV32KHZ-part1 splash=silent quiet showopts vga=0x317
    module /boot/initrd-3.1.10-1.9-xen

My first edit where there was no xen.gz file under the /boot directory
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: xen###
title Xen -- openSUSE 12.1 - 3.1.10-1.9
    root (hd0,4)
    kernel /boot/symvers-3.1.10-1.9-xen.gz vga=mode-0x317 
    module /boot/vmlinuz-3.1.10-1.9-xen root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST380021A_3HV32KHZ-part5 
resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST380021A_3HV32KHZ-part1 splash=silent quiet showopts vga=0x317
    module /boot/initrd-3.1.10-1.9-xen

My second edit where I did not use modules
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: xen###
title Xen -- openSUSE 12.1 - 3.1.10-1.9
    root (hd0,4)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.1.10-1.9-xen root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST380021A_3HV32KHZ-part5 
resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST380021A_3HV32KHZ-part1 splash=silent quiet showopts vga=0x317
    initrd /boot/initrd-3.1.10-1.9-xen

Again I thank you for your time,
Peter Welles