> I'm now testing crash on 32bit, but there is an issue before > applying the patches. My machine stopped at checking 'hlt' > after kexec, showing below message. > > CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.80GHz stepping 0a > Checking 'hlt' instruction... > > v2.6.23.1 works fine for 1st kernel. > I'm investigating it.. I found that the following patch makes my machine stopped. bfe0c1cc6456bba1f4e3cc1fe29c0ea578ac763a x86: HPET force enable for ICH5 It means that after applied this patch, HPET is enabled automatically on 1st kernel and after crash/kexec the 2nd kernel stopped at checking 'hlt'. I also tested the latest kernel(2.6.24-rc1-gec3b67c1). Boot parameter "nohpet" resolves this issue and kdump works well on 32bit. So I guess HPET affects this. But I don't know why 64bit kernel with HPET is OK. Thanks Hiroshi Shimamoto
