Daniel Mierswa <impulze at impulze.org> writes: > Hi there... > i'm struggling with kexec-tools on that particular machine for good a year > now... it never seemed to work on that machine so it might not be the software > itself but i wonder if you could manage to give me a hint on where it particular > goes kaboom > from the source i cannot dig anything except the switch statement which boils > out with unknown rel relocation if a specific r_type is not matched. > > > barad-dur i386 # kexec --debug --type=bzImage --append="init=/linuxrc rw > root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/vg/ROOT lvm=vg > crypt0=sda:8:0:router.sda.key:wd91ultra2" --initrd=/boot/initrd-new.gz --load > /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-hardened-r5 > Unknown rel relocation: 9 > > the version i'm using is > kexec-tools-testing 20070330-git released 30th March 2007 > > but it's the same error with any other version :) That is a generic software bug. Either /sbin/kexec needs to handle R_386_GOT_OFF or you need to switch to a different set of build tools. What are you compiler, linker, and assembler versions? Just so we have a chance of reproducing this problem. Eric
