From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
To: Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@genband.com>
Cc: Haren Myneni <hbabu@us.ibm.com>, kexec@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: kexec -p and initrd
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:58:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130710185820.GM5819@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51DDACCC.7000705@genband.com>
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 12:49:48PM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to figure something out but the man pages seem a bit
> ambiguous. If I specify the "--initrd" option when loading a kernel
> for use on panic, does the initrd get copied into kernel memory at
> that point or does it get loaded from the specified path after the
> panic when the new kernel is booting?
Yes, it gets loaded in kernel memory once kexec -p returns successfuly.
For more internals, have a look at.
http://lse.sourceforge.net/kdump/documentation/ols2oo5-kdump-paper.pdf
Vivek
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