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From: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: hbabu@us.ibm.com, kexec@lists.infradead.org,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kexec refuses to boot latest -mm
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 11:11:13 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071229054113.GB17426@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071228142739.GA4560@redhat.com>

On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 09:27:39AM -0500, Vivek Goyal 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)
> 
> I generally try few things.
> 
> - Specify earlyprintk= parameter for second kernel and see if control
>   is reaching to second kernel.
> 
> - Otherwise specify --console-serial parameter on "kexec -l" commandline
>   and it should display a message "I am in purgatory" on serial console.
>   This will just mean that control has reached at least till purgatory.
> 

Ok, so it reaches till here. I get "I'm in purgatory" on the console.

-- 
regards,
Dhaval

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From: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: hbabu@us.ibm.com, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kexec@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: kexec refuses to boot latest -mm
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 11:11:13 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071229054113.GB17426@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071228142739.GA4560@redhat.com>

On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 09:27:39AM -0500, Vivek Goyal 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)
> 
> I generally try few things.
> 
> - Specify earlyprintk= parameter for second kernel and see if control
>   is reaching to second kernel.
> 
> - Otherwise specify --console-serial parameter on "kexec -l" commandline
>   and it should display a message "I am in purgatory" on serial console.
>   This will just mean that control has reached at least till purgatory.
> 

Ok, so it reaches till here. I get "I'm in purgatory" on the console.

-- 
regards,
Dhaval

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-29  5:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-28 12:45 kexec refuses to boot latest -mm Dhaval Giani
2007-12-28 12:45 ` Dhaval Giani
2007-12-28 14:27 ` Vivek Goyal
2007-12-28 14:27   ` Vivek Goyal
2007-12-29  5:41   ` Dhaval Giani [this message]
2007-12-29  5:41     ` Dhaval Giani
2007-12-31 15:06     ` Vivek Goyal
2007-12-31 15:06       ` Vivek Goyal
2007-12-31 20:22       ` Dhaval Giani
2007-12-31 20:22         ` Dhaval Giani
2007-12-31 15:08     ` Vivek Goyal
2007-12-31 15:08       ` Vivek Goyal
2008-01-03 19:52       ` Dhaval Giani
2008-01-03 19:52         ` Dhaval Giani
2008-01-03 21:42         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-01-03 21:42           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-01-04 12:28           ` Dhaval Giani
2008-01-04 12:28             ` Dhaval Giani
2008-01-04 15:54             ` Dhaval Giani
2008-01-04 15:54               ` Dhaval Giani
2008-01-06  2:17               ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-06  2:17                 ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-06 13:37               ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-06 13:37                 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-07  9:18                 ` Dhaval Giani
2008-01-07  9:18                   ` Dhaval Giani
2008-01-07 10:02                   ` Dhaval Giani
2008-01-07 10:02                     ` Dhaval Giani
2008-01-04 17:11             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-01-04 17:11               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-12-31 16:35     ` Vivek Goyal
2007-12-31 16:35       ` Vivek Goyal
2007-12-28 19:54 ` Neil Horman
2007-12-28 19:54   ` Neil Horman
2007-12-29  5:26   ` Dhaval Giani
2007-12-29  5:26     ` Dhaval Giani
2008-01-07 17:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-07 17:43   ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-07 17:53   ` Dhaval Giani
2008-01-07 17:53     ` Dhaval Giani
2008-01-07 17:58     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-07 17:58       ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-07 19:08     ` crashing on lowmem-only config (was: kexec refuses to boot latest -mm) H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-07 19:08       ` H. Peter Anvin

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