Hi Simon, Sorry, this does not work correctly. Please ignore. Geoff Levand wrote: > Fix these reboot errors with NFS mounted root filesystems: > > nfs: server 192.168.1.1 not responding, still trying > > The main kexec code that uses kexec_loaded() expects a non-zero > return to mean a kexec kernel has been loaded for execution. > Here is the current check: > > if ((result == 0) && (do_shutdown || do_exec) && !kexec_loaded()) > die > > In cases where the currently running kernel does not have kexec enabled, > or in cases where the distro init scripts (YDL, maybe others) have unmounted > the sys filesystem prior to running kexec, the open of > "/sys/kernel/kexec_loaded" will fail. This result should be returned as > (0), meaning NOT LOADED. The current kexec_loaded() code returns (-1), > meaning LOADED. Unfortunately, in the case where a kernel has been loaded, but the init scripts unmount sys_fs, my change will not allow the kexec to continue. The only way to fix the NFS problem is to change the init scripts to pass the -x option to kexec. -Geoff
