Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (396 mails)

[Bruno Friedmann <bruno@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/18/2011 08:08 AM, jdd wrote:
> I can't make kexec work. Is the openSUSE kernel compiled with the
> relevant option (CONFIG_KEXEC=y)?

As always all your booted kernel config is here

zcat /proc/config.gz | grep "KEXEC"

CONFIG_KEXEC=y

> what I did:
>
> in place of trying from a live cd, simply trying from the openSUSE
> installed as vmware (11.3, xfce) - should work!
>
> so boot the openSUSE, open a root terminal and type
>
> kexec -l /boot/vmlinuz --append=(result of cat /proc/cmdline -
> copy/paste) --initrd=/boot/initrd
>
> return with an error "reading_legacy sectors_per_track failed"
>
> then kexec -e fails (freeze the virtual machine)
>
> wjat can I do? I have the same error when trying from a live cd

What you foget is to mount where the /boot is :-)
it's written in your previous message.
> Before kexec you have to mount /boot from the
> installed system.

Hope this help


> thanks
> jdd


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