Re: kexec refuses to boot latest -mm

From: Neil Horman
Date: Fri Dec 28 2007 - 14:55:39 EST


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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