I've been trying to use kexec on a Seagate DockStar (kirkwood-based). Using a minimal kernel with a built-in initramfs, I've been able to successfully kexec a ~1M kernel with a ~2.7M initrd. But if I then use *that* kernel to try to kexec itself (for example, using "reboot" when the kexec-tools package is installed), it fails during the "Uncompressing the kernel" code. It fails with both gzip and lzma compressed images. The precise failure seems to depend on the size of the kernel -- sometimes it complains about a corrupt image, sometimes it just hangs. I added some print statements to the decompress-inflate code, and I've seen all sorts of error messages. I then found the same failure-during-decompression occurs if I try to use the minimal kernel to kexec itself, or the bigger kernel to kexec anything. So the successful kexec seems to be a lucky fluke, and there's still something not set up correctly in the post-kexec environment. Any suggestions on where to look or how to debug this would be very welcome. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u
