On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 03:40:13PM -0700, Mrunal Gawade wrote: > Thanks Sachin. > > The value over there is a "0" which means I have a failure. How do I > diagnose what is the problem? I was able to load a normal kernel and then > use "e" option to reboot into it. But crash dump kernel seemed to be giving > problem always. > > > Thank you, > Mrunal > check /var/log/messages, to see if there is any message there. It wouldn't hurt to enable debugging in the kexec binary either, although if the load is actually failing, I would think you would get something on stderr. First guess would be that you don't have a crashkernel area specified on your command line (or you do, and its reservation failed, which also will show up in the logs most likely) Neil > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 4:13 AM, Sachin P. Sant <sachinp at in.ibm.com> wrote: > > > Mrunal Gawade wrote: > > > > > After I execute this command. Should I expect any prompt that kernel > > > loaded successfully? > > > > > Check the /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_loaded file. Value "1" means success. > > > > Thanks > > -Sachin > > > > > _______________________________________________ > kexec mailing list > kexec at lists.infradead.org > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec -- /*************************************************** *Neil Horman *Software Engineer *Red Hat, Inc. *nhorman at redhat.com *gpg keyid: 1024D / 0x92A74FA1 *http://pgp.mit.edu ***************************************************/
