From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from out02.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.232]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1MtXUK-0005pe-Vb for kexec@lists.infradead.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:03:22 +0000 References: <187068.43679.qm@web65716.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:03:08 -0700 In-Reply-To: <187068.43679.qm@web65716.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> (Prabhakar K.'s message of "Thu\, 1 Oct 2009 14\:09\:33 -0700 \(PDT\)") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Fastboot] kexec - 2.6.14 - loads BIOS again 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: "Prabhakar K." Cc: fastboot@lists.linux-foundation.org, Kexec Mailing List "Prabhakar K." writes: > From: Eric W. Biederman > Subject: Re: [Fastboot] kexec - 2.6.14 - loads BIOS again > To: "Prabhakar K." > Cc: "Kexec Mailing List" , > fastboot@lists.linux-foundation.org > Date: Thursday, October 1, 2009, 6:29 AM > > "Prabhakar K." writes: > >> Sending again as it is not posted yet !! >> >> I have back ported to multiple versions of different kexec-tools. Also I >> disabled watchdogs so that the first kernel reboot is not kicked in. >> Now, with all those kexec-tools I see that it hangs >> after post_verification_setup_arch( ). >> And I had to hard reboot the router box. >> >> Is there a specific kexec tools that is known to work with 2.6.14 ? Or any >> additional changes needed ? > > Almost certainly if you are getting as far as kexec-tools you are dying > someplace early in your target kernel. > >>>> OK. What piece of code can cause in the target kernel to die ? > Can I take any working bzImage or vmlinux of a linux kernel(for that matter any > linux kernel) and load that as my target kernel ? or does this has any > restriction ? Short of bugs in /sbin/kexec it is unrestricted. Eric _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec