* Eric W. Biederman [2008-04-28 10:55]: > > It is a different code path. It is designed to exercise the 16bit BIOS > calls that the kernel uses with a lot of serial port debugging > so we can see if that is the problem. Well, that gives me ------------------------------------------------------------ I'm in purgatory kexec_test 20080324 starting... eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000000 ecx: 00000000 edx: 00000000 esi: 00000000 edi: 00000000 esp: 00008FF8 ebp: 00000000 idt: 00000000 00000000 gdt: 0000006F 00005BA0 Switching descriptors. Descriptors changed. Legacy pic setup. In real mode. Interrupts enabled. Base memory size: 0276 A20 disabled. E820 Memory Map. 000000000009D800 @ 0000000000000000 type: 00000001 0000000000002800 @ 000 ------------------------------------------------------------ Yes, the output stops here. Don't know why ... Bernhard