Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754243AbYADRJ4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jan 2008 12:09:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752344AbYADRJq (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jan 2008 12:09:46 -0500 Received: from ogre.sisk.pl ([217.79.144.158]:53236 "EHLO ogre.sisk.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752035AbYADRJq (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jan 2008 12:09:46 -0500 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Dhaval Giani Subject: Re: kexec refuses to boot latest -mm Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 18:11:57 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 20070904.708012) Cc: Vivek Goyal , hbabu@us.ibm.com, lkml , kexec@lists.infradead.org References: <20071228124532.GB32643@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <200801032242.01425.rjw@sisk.pl> <20080104122816.GF4514@linux.vnet.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20080104122816.GF4514@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200801041811.58364.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2198 Lines: 51 On Friday, 4 of January 2008, Dhaval Giani wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 10:42:00PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Thursday, 3 of January 2008, Dhaval Giani wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 10:08:43AM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote: > > > > On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 11:11:13AM +0530, Dhaval Giani wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 09:27:39AM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 06:15:32PM +0530, Dhaval Giani wrote: > > > > > > > Hi Vivek, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I can't seem to get the latest -mm (2.6.24-rc6-mm1) to boot with > > > > > > > kexec. It just gets stuck at "Starting new kernel". > > > > > > > > > > > > > > It does boot normally when booted as the first kernel. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Any hints debugging? (x86 architecture) > > > > > > > > > > > > I generally try few things. > > > > > > > > > > > > - Specify earlyprintk= parameter for second kernel and see if control > > > > > > is reaching to second kernel. > > > > > > > > > > > > - Otherwise specify --console-serial parameter on "kexec -l" commandline > > > > > > and it should display a message "I am in purgatory" on serial console. > > > > > > This will just mean that control has reached at least till purgatory. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Ok, so it reaches till here. I get "I'm in purgatory" on the console. > > > > > > > > One more thing. Is 2.6.24-rc6 working properly? > > > > > > > > > > 2.6.24-rc5 boots, so does 2.6.24-rc5-mm1. 2.6.24-rc6 does not boot, nor > > > does 2.6.24-rc6-mm1. Its a regression. > > > > Added to the list of reported regressions as: > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9682 > > > > I've no clue what I managed to do wrong last night, probably tried to boot > 2.6.24-rc6-mm1 thinking it was 2.6.24-rc6. 2.6.24-rc6 boots, but -mm > does not. Sorry for the noise. Dropped from the regression list and changed the bugzilla entry to an -mm bug. Thanks, Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/