Re: 2.5.68-mm4

Steven Cole
2003-05-02T21:01:18Z

On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 14:49, Steven Cole wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 14:34, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > For what it's worth, kexec has worked for me on the following
> > > two systems.
> > > ...
> > > 00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 08)
> >
> > Are you using eepro100 or e100? I found that e100 failed to bring up the
> > interface on restart ("failed selftest"), but eepro100 was OK.
>
> CONFIG_EEPRO100=y
> # CONFIG_EEPRO100_PIO is not set
> # CONFIG_E100 is not set
>
> I can test E100 again to verify if that would help.
>
# CONFIG_EEPRO100 is not set
CONFIG_E100=y

Well, e100 works for me with kexec. Sure is quick to just do:

cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.5.68-mm4x
do-kexec.sh /boot/vmlinuz-2.5.68-mm4x

and no running /sbin/lilo. Nice.
( I put do-kexec.sh and kexec in /usr/local/bin )

Steven