From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755402AbXL2FmJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:42:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751266AbXL2Fl5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:41:57 -0500 Received: from E23SMTP04.au.ibm.com ([202.81.18.173]:37084 "EHLO e23smtp04.au.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751030AbXL2Fl4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:41:56 -0500 Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 11:11:13 +0530 From: Dhaval Giani To: Vivek Goyal Cc: hbabu@us.ibm.com, lkml , kexec@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: kexec refuses to boot latest -mm Message-ID: <20071229054113.GB17426@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reply-To: Dhaval Giani References: <20071228124532.GB32643@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20071228142739.GA4560@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071228142739.GA4560@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- regards, Dhaval