On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 6:16 AM, Bernhard Walle <bwalle at suse.de> wrote: > did anybody try the --real-mode option with current release? I tried > it on two machines, and on one machine it just reboots, on the other > machine it hangs. I think you're experiencing a bug that I just proposed a patch for. :-) You can confirm that: try adding the "--debug" option to your kexec call. If that works correctly, then I think you'll find that the patch in "[PATCH 2/9] Fix copy-paste bug: entry16 does not start at entry16_debug" will solve your problem. That's archived here: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2008-April/001581.html Jamey