I found this, looks like a minor bug: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man2/kexec_load.2.html says: KEXEC_PRESERVE_CONTEXT (since Linux 2.7.27) was there ever such a kernel version: 2.7.27? - MST -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html