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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: "Prabhakar K." <krishkar99@yahoo.com>
Cc: fastboot@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	Kexec Mailing List <kexec@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [Fastboot] kexec - 2.6.14 - loads BIOS again
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:10:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1iqf6oeuy.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <473364.90108.qm@web65711.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> (Prabhakar K.'s message of "Fri\, 25 Sep 2009 11\:27\:15 -0700 \(PDT\)")

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

> Hi - After my previous posting I was able to make some progress.
>
> When I do
>
> kexec -l vmlinux --append="init 1 root=/dev/hda2" --console-serial
>
> and 
> kexec -e,
>
> I get message:
>
> Starting new kernel
> I'm in purgatory
>
> And after that it still boots from BIOS (to the same first kernel).
>
> Whats the problem here?

I would recommend instrumenting up purgatory and then your target kernel.

It is quite possible the problem is in your backport.

> Also do I need kdump again in addition to the latest kexec tools?
> When I do:
> #chkconfig kdump on
> error reading information on service kdump
> #service kdump start
> Bad core dump start addres: start

The user space kdump stuff is just a user space wrapper, that creates
a useful initrd etc.


> What am I missing here?

The appropriate list.  Discussion of all things kexec has moved to the kexec
list at infradead which I have cc'd.

Eric

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       reply	other threads:[~2009-09-25 22:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <473364.90108.qm@web65711.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>
2009-09-25 22:10 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2009-09-28 18:43   ` [Fastboot] kexec - 2.6.14 - loads BIOS again Prabhakar K.
2009-09-29  0:41     ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-09-29  2:48       ` Prabhakar K.
2009-09-30 19:03       ` Prabhakar K.
2009-10-01  0:07       ` Prabhakar K.
2009-10-01  0:59         ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-10-01 21:09           ` Prabhakar K.
2009-10-02  2:03             ` Eric W. Biederman

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