<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><br><br><div><br>From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com><br>Subject: Re: [Fastboot] kexec - 2.6.14 - loads BIOS again<br>To: "Prabhakar K." <krishkar99@yahoo.com><br>Cc: "Kexec Mailing List" <kexec@lists.infradead.org>, fastboot@lists.linux-foundation.org<br>Date: Thursday, October 1, 2009, 6:29 AM<br><br><div class="plainMail">"Prabhakar K." <<a ymailto="mailto:krishkar99@yahoo.com" href="/mc/compose?to=krishkar99@yahoo.com">krishkar99@yahoo.com</a>> writes:<br><br>> Sending again as it is not posted yet !!<br>><br>> I have back ported to multiple versions of different kexec-tools. Also I<br>> disabled watchdogs so that the first kernel reboot is not kicked in.<br>> Now, with all those kexec-tools I see that it hangs<br>> after post_verification_setup_arch( ).<br>> And I had to hard reboot the router
box.<br>><br>> Is there a specific kexec tools that is known to work with 2.6.14 ? Or any<br>> additional changes needed ?<br><br>Almost certainly if you are getting as far as kexec-tools you are dying<br>someplace early in your target kernel.<br><br></div><div class="plainMail">>>> OK. What piece of code can cause in the target kernel to die ?</div><div class="plainMail">Can I take any working bzImage or vmlinux of a linux kernel(for that matter any linux kernel) and load that as my target kernel ? or does this has any restriction ?</div><div class="plainMail">thanks for your input !!<br><br>> Any inputs welcome , thanks in advance !!<br>><br><br></div><div class="plainMail">Please CC me in reply.<br><br>Eric</div><div class="plainMail"><br></div>--- On <b>Thu, 10/1/09, Eric W. Biederman <i><ebiederm@xmission.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left:
5px;"><br>From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com><br>Subject: Re: [Fastboot] kexec - 2.6.14 - loads BIOS again<br>To: "Prabhakar K." <krishkar99@yahoo.com><br>Cc: "Kexec Mailing List" <kexec@lists.infradead.org>, fastboot@lists.linux-foundation.org<br>Date: Thursday, October 1, 2009, 6:29 AM<br><br><div class="plainMail">"Prabhakar K." <<a ymailto="mailto:krishkar99@yahoo.com" href="/mc/compose?to=krishkar99@yahoo.com">krishkar99@yahoo.com</a>> writes:<br><br>> Sending again as it is not posted yet !!<br>><br>> I have back ported to multiple versions of different kexec-tools. Also I<br>> disabled watchdogs so that the first kernel reboot is not kicked in.<br>> Now, with all those kexec-tools I see that it hangs<br>> after post_verification_setup_arch( ).<br>> And I had to hard reboot the router box.<br>><br>> Is there a specific kexec tools that is known to work with 2.6.14 ? Or any<br>>
additional changes needed ?<br><br>Almost certainly if you are getting as far as kexec-tools you are dying<br>someplace early in your target kernel.<br><br><br>> Any inputs welcome , thanks in advance !!<br>><br>> Please CC me in reply.<br><br>Eric<br></div></blockquote></div></td></tr></table><br>