Bug 9682 - kexec refuses to boot
Summary: kexec refuses to boot
Status: RESOLVED PATCH_ALREADY_AVAILABLE
Alias: None
Product: Other
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Other (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: P1 normal
Assignee: other_other
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Reported: 2008-01-03 13:32 UTC by Rafael J. Wysocki
Modified: 2008-02-03 11:16 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Kernel Version: 2.6.24-rc6
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Regression: Yes
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Description Rafael J. Wysocki 2008-01-03 13:32:41 UTC 
Subject         : kexec refuses to boot
Submitter       : Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/3/294
Handled-By      : Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Comment 1 Natalie Protasevich 2008-02-03 01:04:48 UTC 
From Dhaval:
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.

I went ahead and did the bisect, and

commit 7dd838ea7afa42a8840cf0e262d5892346ecf379
Author: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date:   Sat Jan 5 13:27:04 2008 +0100

is the first bad commit.
Comment 2 Dhaval Giani 2008-02-03 05:35:21 UTC 
I believe this was fixed by H Peter Anvin in a follow up patch.
Comment 3 Natalie Protasevich 2008-02-03 11:16:57 UTC 
I think found it : commit cf8fa920cb4271f17e0265c863d64bea1b31941a
(linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86.git)
Thanks.
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