"Prabhakar K." <krishkar99 at yahoo.com> writes: > Hi - After my previous posting I was able to make some progress. > > When I do > > kexec -l vmlinux --append="init 1 root=/dev/hda2" --console-serial > > and > kexec -e, > > I get message: > > Starting new kernel > I'm in purgatory > > And after that it still boots from BIOS (to the same first kernel). > > Whats the problem here? I would recommend instrumenting up purgatory and then your target kernel. It is quite possible the problem is in your backport. > Also do I need kdump again in addition to the latest kexec tools? > When I do: > #chkconfig kdump on > error reading information on service kdump > #service kdump start > Bad core dump start addres: start The user space kdump stuff is just a user space wrapper, that creates a useful initrd etc. > What am I missing here? The appropriate list. Discussion of all things kexec has moved to the kexec list at infradead which I have cc'd. Eric
