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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-29 5:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ 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 14:27 ` Vivek Goyal
2007-12-29 5:41 ` Dhaval Giani [this message]
2007-12-31 15:06 ` Vivek Goyal
2007-12-31 20:22 ` Dhaval Giani
2007-12-31 15:08 ` Vivek Goyal
2008-01-03 19:52 ` Dhaval Giani
2008-01-03 21:42 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-01-04 12:28 ` Dhaval Giani
2008-01-04 15:54 ` Dhaval Giani
2008-01-06 2:17 ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-06 13:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-07 9:18 ` Dhaval Giani
2008-01-07 10:02 ` Dhaval Giani
2008-01-04 17:11 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-12-31 16:35 ` Vivek Goyal
2007-12-28 19:54 ` Neil Horman
2007-12-29 5:26 ` Dhaval Giani
2008-01-07 17:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-07 17:53 ` Dhaval Giani
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
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