I'm new to the KEXEC/KDUMP world - just started out today. I believe that I have things set up right, but I'm running into two issues: 1. A few seconds into the boot, I see: [ 3.400435] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x28d0 ctl 0x28f8 bmdma 0x28b0 irq 5 [ 3.410435] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x28d8 ctl 0x28fc bmdma 0x28b8 irq 5 [ 3.864522] irq 5: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option) [ 3.864522] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.25-rc8-bannor-kexec #1 [ 3.864522 [ 3.864522] Call Trace: [ 3.864522] <IRQ> [<ffffffff8024da5e>] __report_bad_irq+0x1e/0x80 [ 3.864522] [<ffffffff8024dd2f>] note_interrupt+0x26f/0x2a0 [ 3.864522] [<ffffffff8024e2b1>] handle_fasteoi_irq+0x71/0xa0 [ 3.864522] [<ffffffff8020ed8c>] do_IRQ+0x5c/0xc0 [ 3.864522] [<ffffffff8020c471>] ret_from_intr+0x0/0xa [ 3.864522] <EOI> [<ffffffff803bc610>] nv_scr_read+0x0/0x30 [ 3.864522] [<ffffffff8020afbe>] default_idle+0x2e/0x60 [ 3.864522] [<ffffffff8020afb9>] default_idle+0x29/0x60 [ 3.864522] [<ffffffff8020af90>] default_idle+0x0/0x60 [ 3.864522] [<ffffffff8020b032>] cpu_idle+0x42/0x70 [ 3.864522] [<ffffffff80501aaa>] start_kernel+0x23a/0x280 [ 3.864522] [<ffffffff805011a5>] _sinittext+0x1a5/0x1f0 [ 3.864522] [ 3.864522] handlers: [ 3.864522] [<ffffffff803bd950>] (nv_adma_interrupt+0x0/0x4c0) [ 3.864522] Disabling IRQ #5 2. Very soon thereafter, I start seeing: [ 4.671112] sda:<3>ata1: EH in ADMA mode, notifier 0x1 notifier_error 0x0 g0 [ 34.681112] ata1: CPB 0: ctl_flags 0xd, resp_flags 0x1 [ 34.681112] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen [ 34.691112] ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 4096 n [ 34.691112] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (time) [ 34.701112] ata1.00: status: { DRDY } [ 35.051112] ata1: soft resetting link [ 35.211112] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) [ 35.251112] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 [ 35.251112] ata1: EH complete This goes on "forever" - and the system fails to boot. This script is used to set up kexec: root="root=/dev/sda1" gen_args="1 irqpoll maxcpus=1 reset_devices" bannor_args="acpi=off console=tty0 console=ttyS2,115200n8" /usr/local/sbin/kexec -l /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25-rc8-bannor-kexec \ --append="${root} ${gen_args} ${bannor_args}" Some other notes: o I have the kernel gen'd w/out an initrd o Kernel is gen'd w/out CONFIG_SMP o I added the 'acpi=off' as one site I google'd had that as a possible fix for a problem like this. I do not know if the two problems mentioned above are related, but in any case, I'm wondering if there are any pointers out there to help get this going. I have the output from 'lspci' and the console log during a failed boot up on : http://free.linux.hp.com/~adb/kexec/bootlog.txt Thanks, Alan