ARM (IMX) devices booting/LPAE

[Ryan]

Hi Jason,

Thanks for this. I have tried all the lpae kernels for arm, 6.6 and
6.12 now boot perfectly, which is fantastic. However 6.18 an 7.0.x
start the early boot process but kernel panic with 

 " Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-
block(0,0) "

I can attach the full strace that comes afterwards. I have tried
changing settings on the in the extlinux and fstab files but this makes
no difference, It panics every time. Not sure where to start looking or
if its a kernel issue. 

Many thanks for all your continued help.

Ryan




On Mon, 2026-05-25 at 19:52 -0700, Jason Self wrote:
> Thanks! Since that doesn't support LPAE you'll want the new -nonlpae
> packages that have just been created in response. To use these, just
> append -nonlpae to the usual package names: linux-libre-nonlpae or
> linux-libre-lts-nonlpae.
> 
> The main server has been updated to include these new packages
> starting
> with the 6.6 branch and going forward. Please allow a day or two for
> the files to sync across the mirrors fully.
> 
> I've also updated the website to mention the non-LPAE kernel option
> for
> ARMv7.