Re: [PATCH] kdump: Fix for boot problems on SMP

[Akinobu Mita]

I've forgotten CC-ing.

On Saturday 20 November 2004 10:05, Badari Pulavarty wrote:

> 4) Load the second kernel to be booted using
>
>    kexec -p <second-kernel> --args-linux --append="root=<root-dev> dump
>    init 1 memmap=exactmap memmap=640k@0 memmap=32M@16M"
>
> But kexec doesn't seem to like option "-p".
> Even when I removed "-p", its complaining about "--args-linux"


I also have the kexec which does not have "-p" option.
Instead of using "-p" option, I use "-l" option after changing the kexec
as follows.

--- kexec-tools-1.98/kexec/kexec.c.orig	2004-10-31 19:42:34.000000000 +0900
+++ kexec-tools-1.98/kexec/kexec.c	2004-10-31 19:43:01.000000000 +0900
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ static int my_load(const char *type, int
 	if (sort_segments(segments, nr_segments) < 0) {
 		return -1;
 	}
-	result = kexec_load(entry, nr_segments, segments, 0);
+	result = kexec_load(entry, nr_segments, segments, 1);
 	if (result != 0) {
 		/* The load failed, print some debugging information */
 		fprintf(stderr, "kexec_load failed: %s\n",


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