Khalid Aziz wrote, on 27/04/10 00:10:
On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 15:07 +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote:
Package: kexec-tools
Severity: normal
It now appears that kexec works reliably provided the console
is working, but I haven't fully figured out what
dependency-based booting was doing with the shutdown/reboot process.
I have seen the problem of console not showing any messages during a
kexec reboot on a few other machines. It is an upstream problem and has
something to do with video card not being reset upon kexec reboot.
Could you please ensure that this version of kexec-tools gets built for
i386?
Yes, of course. Build machines take some time to build packages after an
upload. i386 version was built this morning and should show up in repo
shortly.
Thanks, the i386 build turned up at my local mirror a few hours ago.
When I tried doing a restart with the official Debian i386 build of
kexec, the machine did a hardware restart.
I then added a line just after the call to do_stop in
/etc/init.d/kexec-load:
ls /boot/vmlinuz*
Then retried selecting restart from the kdm login menu.
Sometimes kexec worked fine and I booted without going to the BIOS
start-up and GRUB menu, on other occasions the ls command revealed that
the newer /boot/vmlinuz* files were absent and only some files normally
hidden underneath the /boot mount-point were visible.
So it appears that /boot was sometimes not mounted, even though the
message about unmount local file systems appeared much later in the
shutdown process.
Can you suggest any further debugging ideas?
Arthur.
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