[Fastboot] kexec - 2.6.14 - loads BIOS again

[Eric W. Biederman]

"Prabhakar K." <krishkar99 at yahoo.com> writes:

> Sending again as it is not posted yet !!
>
> I have back ported to multiple versions of different kexec-tools. Also I
> disabled watchdogs so that the first kernel reboot is not kicked in.
> Now, with all those kexec-tools I see that it hangs
> after post_verification_setup_arch( ).
> And I had to hard reboot the router box.
>
> Is there a specific kexec tools that is known to work with 2.6.14 ? Or any
> additional changes needed ?

Almost certainly if you are getting as far as kexec-tools you are dying
someplace early in your target kernel.


> Any inputs welcome , thanks in advance !!
>
> Please CC me in reply.

Eric