On Thu Sep 06 12, Llu?s Batlle i Rossell wrote: > Hello, > > while I can load immediately a kernel using kexec, when I set it for panic and > crash with sysrq-c, the computer hangs. > > I'm using the nvidia X driver; can it be that it stops the panic handling from > working? I don't understand why it would work with normal kexec though, if it > were the case. > > Regards, > Llu?s. Hi Lluis, What kernel are you using? The commit 722bc6b "x86/mm: Fix the size calculation of mapping tables" which started showing up in 3.5-rc1 causes problems for the crash kernel. You might try this patchset[1] from Jacob Shin and see if it resolves the problem for you if you are experiencing your problem on a 3.5-rc1+ kernel. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/24/474 Regards, Jerry > > _______________________________________________ > kexec mailing list > kexec at lists.infradead.org > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
