kexec refuses to boot latest -mm
Dhaval Giani
dhaval at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Sat Dec 29 00:26:38 EST 2007
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 02:54:45PM -0500, Neil Horman wrote:
> 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?
>
kexec -l, followed by a normal reboot.
--
regards,
Dhaval
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