linux-kernel - Re: [2.6.22-rc4] kexec failed: invalid argument

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Message-Id: <200706151611.01166.caglar@pardus.org.tr>
Date:	Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:10:58 +0300
From:	"S.Çağlar Onur" <caglar@...dus.org.tr>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, horms@...ge.net.au
Subject: Re: [2.6.22-rc4] kexec failed: invalid argument

15 Haz 2007 Cum tarihinde, S.Çağlar Onur şunları yazmıştı: 
> 15 Haz 2007 Cum tarihinde, Eric W. Biederman şunları yazmıştı:
> > Sight unseen I'm guessing that you have a kexec aware distro that is
> > doing something in the runlevel change scripts and thus unloading the
> > kernel. What do: /sys/kernel/kexec_loaded and
> > /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_loaded say?
>
> Not sure, here is the pseudo output what our init system does;
>
> - Stop running services
> - Save random seed, sync clock
> - Unmount mounted fs's (this includes proc/sysfs etc.)
> - Call kexec -e
> - Call reboot

Heh, i found a problem in our init system and after solving that issue kexec 
starts to works fine :), thanks for the tip!

Cheers
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S.Çağlar Onur <caglar@...dus.org.tr>
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