Forgt to copy my response to fastboot mailing list. Thanks Vivek
----- Forwarded message from Vivek Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:25:25 -0400 From: Vivek Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jay Lan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Fastboot] A question on kexec usage Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 02:18:21PM -0700, Jay Lan wrote: > Can you use 'kexec -le' option to boot up a new kernel from > the crashdump kernel (-p) after a crash? Is it legal? > Do we need to be concerned about what might happen in > this operation scenario? > Right now this does not work. In theory there is no gurantee that a production kernel can boot successfully from the panic kernel. But some folks from unisys have been using it. They save the /proc/iomem from the first kernel to some file say tmp, and later modified kexec tools to read temp when loading a kexec kernel. Thanks Vivek ----- End forwarded message ----- _______________________________________________ fastboot mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/fastboot
