From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from koto.vergenet.net ([210.128.90.7]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.68 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1Jdi3j-0003EO-QN for kexec@lists.infradead.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:29:36 +0000 Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:29:25 +0900 From: Simon Horman Subject: Re: kexec won't --load-panic a 2.6.22 relocatable kernel? Message-ID: <20080324082924.GA26733@verge.net.au> References: <170fa0d20803182305x3b16f7bt198d767a53553c8e@mail.gmail.com> <20080321053236.GA29330@verge.net.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080321053236.GA29330@verge.net.au> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: kexec-bounces@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: kexec-bounces+dwmw2=infradead.org@lists.infradead.org To: Mike Snitzer Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 02:32:36PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 02:05:46AM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote: > > I'm building a x86_64 2.6.22 kernel with the following options set: > > > > CONFIG_KEXEC=y > > CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=y > > CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y > > CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x200000 > > > > If I try to load the kernel with the following I get: > > > > ./kexec --args-linux -p '--command-line=ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet > > irqpoll maxcpus=1' --initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.22.19.img > > /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.19 > > > > ./kexec: unrecognized option `--args-linux' > > kexec-tools-testing 20080318-rc released 18th March 2008 > > Usage: kexec [OPTION]... [kernel] > > ... > > Cannot load /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.19 > > Hi Mike, > > that looks a lot like a problem with kexec-tools parsing command line > arguments to me. However I'm not having much luck reproducing it here. > I'll poke a bit more. > > Did you get kexec-tools-testing 20080318-rc as a tarball from > kernel.org? I just want to make sure we are looking at the same code. Sorry for being a bit slow, I have managed to reproduce the problem, which is that --args-linux can't be used if the image is a bzImage. Could you try with a vmlinux image instead? -- Horms _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec