[Cbe-oss-dev] kexec troubles on ps3

[Michael Ellerman]

On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 11:23 +0200, Stefan Assmann wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm having trouble with kexecing a kernel on opensuse. Strangely kexec
> works from inside petitboot, but it fails to kexec another kernel from
> within opensuse.

Hi Stefan,

> scenario:
> petitboot: kexec 2.6.25.5 (opensuse) works
> opensuse: kexec 2.6.25.5 (same kernel as from petitboot) fails
> 
> kexec version in both cases is kexec-tools-testing 20080324

My guess is there's something loaded in the opensuse kernel that's not
kexec'ing nicely that isn't loaded by the petitboot kernel.

> There's no particular error message given after kexec -e.

> I ran 'strace kexec -e' and it hangs at
> reboot(LINUX_REBOOT_MAGIC1, LINUX_REBOOT_MAGIC2, 0x45584543 /* LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_??? */

Heh :)

cheers

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