Re: [Fastboot] Kernel format issues?

2007-03-05 Thread Magnus Damm
On 3/3/07, Greg Kurtzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On testing of RHEL5 beta with Perceus (uses kexec), people are having problems with the kexec. I can't replicate locally but here is the info that I got: # kexec --initrd=/vnfs.img --force --append=masterip=192.168.1.254 console=ttyS0,115200

Re: [Fastboot] Kernel format issues?

2007-03-05 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 02:29:42PM -0800, Greg Kurtzer wrote: On testing of RHEL5 beta with Perceus (uses kexec), people are having problems with the kexec. I can't replicate locally but here is the info that I got: # kexec --initrd=/vnfs.img --force --append=masterip=192.168.1.254

[Fastboot] ia64: kdump not working on HP rx2620 hardware

2007-03-05 Thread Magnus Damm
Hi everyone, Just wanted to let you know that 2.6.21-rc2 does _not_ work with kdump on HP rx2620 hardware. It is not a regression though - it has never worked on that platform so far actually. Kexec is working fine since 2.6.20, but kdump is not. The following two patches fixes things for me. In

[Fastboot] [PATCH] Add support for longer kernel command lines (i586, x86_64, IA64)

2007-03-05 Thread Bernhard Walle
This patch increases the kernel command line size for x86_64 and i386 to 2048 characters. This is necessary because with kernel 2.6.21 and newer, the kernel command line size has increased and kexec needs lot of command line space, so this solves some command line overflow problems. To be able to

Re: [Fastboot] Crash Dump Region

2007-03-05 Thread Zou, Nanhai
-Original Message- From: Horms [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2007年3月6日 9:57 To: Zou, Nanhai Cc: Linux-IA64; fastboot Subject: Crash Dump Region Hi, I am currently looking over the code that places the crashdump region into /proc/iomem, and the code that determines its base

Re: [Fastboot] Crash Dump Region

2007-03-05 Thread Zou, Nanhai
-Original Message- From: Zou, Nanhai Sent: 2007年3月6日 10:11 To: 'Horms' Cc: Linux-IA64; fastboot Subject: RE: Crash Dump Region -Original Message- From: Horms [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2007年3月6日 9:57 To: Zou, Nanhai Cc: Linux-IA64; fastboot Subject: Crash

Re: [Fastboot] Crash Dump Region

2007-03-05 Thread Zou Nan hai
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 09:56, Horms wrote: Hi, I am currently looking over the code that places the crashdump region into /proc/iomem, and the code that determines its base address if it is not passed on the kernel comamnd. It seems to me that the current code allows the crashkernel to be

Re: [Fastboot] Crash Dump Region

2007-03-05 Thread Horms
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:18:59AM +0800, Zou, Nanhai wrote: -Original Message- From: Zou, Nanhai Sent: 2007年3月6日 10:11 To: 'Horms' Cc: Linux-IA64; fastboot Subject: RE: Crash Dump Region -Original Message- From: Horms [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [Fastboot] [PATCH] Add support for longer kernel command lines (i586, x86_64, IA64)

2007-03-05 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 11:34:33PM +0100, Bernhard Walle wrote: This patch increases the kernel command line size for x86_64 and i386 to 2048 characters. This is necessary because with kernel 2.6.21 and newer, the kernel command line size has increased and kexec needs lot of command line