"Prabhakar K." <krishkar99 at yahoo.com> writes: > From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm at xmission.com> > Subject: Re: [Fastboot] kexec - 2.6.14 - loads BIOS again > To: "Prabhakar K." <krishkar99 at yahoo.com> > Cc: "Kexec Mailing List" <kexec at lists.infradead.org>, > fastboot at lists.linux-foundation.org > Date: Thursday, October 1, 2009, 6:29 AM > > "Prabhakar K." <krishkar99 at yahoo.com> writes: > >> Sending again as it is not posted yet !! >> >> I have back ported to multiple versions of different kexec-tools. Also I >> disabled watchdogs so that the first kernel reboot is not kicked in. >> Now, with all those kexec-tools I see that it hangs >> after post_verification_setup_arch( ). >> And I had to hard reboot the router box. >> >> Is there a specific kexec tools that is known to work with 2.6.14 ? Or any >> additional changes needed ? > > Almost certainly if you are getting as far as kexec-tools you are dying > someplace early in your target kernel. > >>>> OK. What piece of code can cause in the target kernel to die ? > Can I take any working bzImage or vmlinux of a linux kernel(for that matter any > linux kernel) and load that as my target kernel ? or does this has any > restriction ? Short of bugs in /sbin/kexec it is unrestricted. Eric
