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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