From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262850AbVGMMdY (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jul 2005 08:33:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262607AbVGMMdY (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jul 2005 08:33:24 -0400 Received: from mail.charite.de ([160.45.207.131]:53649 "EHLO mail.charite.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262812AbVGMMco (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jul 2005 08:32:44 -0400 Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 14:32:39 +0200 From: Ralf Hildebrandt To: linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: Current kexec status? Message-ID: <20050713123239.GT4561@charite.de> Mail-Followup-To: linux kernel mailing list References: <20050713104848.GJ4561@charite.de> <20050713122257.GA29477@in.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20050713122257.GA29477@in.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Vivek Goyal : > Can you give more details like > - Which distro release you are running. Debian unstable; since it has no kexec-tools, I built those from source. > - Exactly what changes did you do to /etc/init.d/reboot and what steps > did you follow to load the kernel (command line options). /etc/init.d/reboot: =================== echo -n "Rebooting... " #reboot -d -f -i /usr/local/sbin/kexec -f --exec --debug Loading the Kernel in /etc/init.d/umountfs, before umount'ing /boot: ==================================================================== echo -n "Loading kernel for kexec()..." /usr/local/sbin/kexec --load /vmlinuz echo "done." > - What do you see on screen? Did the new kernel start booting at all. Nope, no booting. I get one line of output which I don't remember; I'll have to retry. > - Would be nice if I can get serial console output. Sorry, no serial port here. -- Ralf Hildebrandt (i.A. des IT-Zentrums) Ralf.Hildebrandt@charite.de Charite - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Tel. +49 (0)30-450 570-155 Gemeinsame Einrichtung von FU- und HU-Berlin Fax. +49 (0)30-450 570-962 IT-Zentrum Standort CBF send no mail to spamtrap@charite.de