Hi, * Eric W. Biederman [2008-04-23 07:00]: > 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. Well, now it goes until DEBUG_CHAR('j'). But the kernel doesn't boot. > 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. That might be the case. Thanks for the information. > You might try booting kexec_test and see where that puts you. But that's ELF and not bzImage. Bernhard
