From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from willeweb.com ([166.70.233.13] helo=mail.willeweb.com) by casper.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1Pg0vG-0002PV-T0 for kexec@lists.infradead.org; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:15:59 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.willeweb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88406121405C for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:14:27 -0700 (MST) From: wille Subject: kexec: Overlapping memory segments error Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:14:27 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201101201314.27153.junk@willeweb.com> 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: kexec@lists.infradead.org I am running a minimal system with a stripped down x86 2.6.32 Linux kernel. >From this environment I kexec to an Ubuntu Lucid i386 2.6.32 kernel. This works fine on *most* hardware, but on some machines the kexec -l fails with overlapping memory segments. First I used the kexec which comes with the Lucid i386 distro (kexec-tools 2.0.1 released 13th August 2009). Then I built kexec from the head of the git tree, which includes the patch "kexec: fix /sys/firmware/memmap memory range overlaps". I was hopeful this patch would fix my problem, but it still fails with an "Overlapping memory segments" error. As a specific example, on a Dell Latitude E6410 (which uses an Intel i7 processor) the kexec -l fails with the following messages: setup_linux_vesafb: 640x480x16 @ e1000000 +12c000 Overlapping memory segments at 0x7ffff000 One final clue: if I do the same kexec -l, but without the --initrd option I don't get the "Overlapping memory segments..." message, but of course without an initrd the system doesn't boot. Any ideas? -wille _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec