Bernhard Walle <bwalle at suse.de> writes: > * Jamey Sharp [2008-04-22 16:44]: >> >> 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 > > No, I used --debug already. If this used to work when booting older kernels on your hardware. Jamey's patch 3/9 might help. Otherwise if this is the first time you are trying it you may simply have encountered the reason that --real-mode is not the default. BIOS can get really strange after the kernel has been running. When I had that the default I only had around a 50% success rate or something like that. You might try booting kexec_test and see where that puts you. Eric
