kexec refuses to boot latest -mm

Neil Horman nhorman at redhat.com
Fri Dec 28 14:54:45 EST 2007


On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 06:15:32PM +0530, Dhaval Giani wrote:
> Hi Vivek,
> 
> I can't seem to get the latest -mm (2.6.24-rc6-mm1) to boot with
> kexec. It just gets stuck at "Starting new kernel".
> 
> It does boot normally when booted as the first kernel.
> 
> Any hints debugging? (x86 architecture)
> 
> -- 
> regards,
> Dhaval
> 
Out of curiosity, how are you booting the kexec kernel?  Are you doing a kexec
-l, or a kexec -p, followed by a system panic?  If its the later, what are you
doing to panic the system?  sysrq-c, custom module executing explicit
crash-code, hang followed by nmi panic?

Regards
Neil

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