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Message-Id: <200801032242.01425.rjw@sisk.pl>
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 22:42:00 +0100
From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>, hbabu@...ibm.com,
lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, kexec@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: kexec refuses to boot latest -mm
On Thursday, 3 of January 2008, Dhaval Giani wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 10:08:43AM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 11:11:13AM +0530, Dhaval Giani wrote:
> > > On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 09:27:39AM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 06:15:32PM +0530, Dhaval Giani wrote:
> > > > > Hi Vivek,
> > > > >
> > > > > I can't seem to get the latest -mm (2.6.24-rc6-mm1) to boot with
> > > > > kexec. It just gets stuck at "Starting new kernel".
> > > > >
> > > > > It does boot normally when booted as the first kernel.
> > > > >
> > > > > Any hints debugging? (x86 architecture)
> > > >
> > > > I generally try few things.
> > > >
> > > > - Specify earlyprintk= parameter for second kernel and see if control
> > > > is reaching to second kernel.
> > > >
> > > > - Otherwise specify --console-serial parameter on "kexec -l" commandline
> > > > and it should display a message "I am in purgatory" on serial console.
> > > > This will just mean that control has reached at least till purgatory.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Ok, so it reaches till here. I get "I'm in purgatory" on the console.
> >
> > One more thing. Is 2.6.24-rc6 working properly?
> >
>
> 2.6.24-rc5 boots, so does 2.6.24-rc5-mm1. 2.6.24-rc6 does not boot, nor
> does 2.6.24-rc6-mm1. Its a regression.
Added to the list of reported regressions as:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9682
Thanks,
Rafael
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