Vivek Goyal schrieb: > On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 01:38:25PM +0200, Thomas Meyer wrote: > >> Hi. >> >> Kexec fails with this error message: >> >> "Could not find a free area of memory of 9000 bytes... >> locate_hole failed" >> >> Kexec version is 1.101-r4 (gentoo) >> Linux kernel version is: 2.6.21-rc6 >> >> cat /proc/iomem: >> cat iomem >> 00000000-0008efff : Conventional Memory >> 00000000-00000000 : Crash kernel >> 0008f000-0008ffff : ACPI NVS >> 00090000-0009ffff : Conventional Memory >> 000a0000-000bffff : Video RAM area >> 00100000-002fffff : Loader Data >> 00300000-3cc8cfff : Conventional Memory >> 3cc8d000-3ccd4fff : BootServices Data >> 3ccd5000-3d84efff : Conventional Memory >> [...] >> >> i've no clue what's wrong here. >> >> any ideas? >> > > What architecture is this? x86 and efi. > I think kexec does not find any suitable > RAM area to load segments that's why it is giving error. And the reason > could be that while parsing /proc/iomem, kexec looks for string "System RAM" > to find out vaild RAM areas. In this case there are no "System RAM" regions. > > What is "Conventional Memory"? Has there been some kernel changes recently > or some other arch exports it in a different manner? > No recent kernel changes. kexec never worked on this x86 efi machine and i just wanted to find out why is that. the question is what to do next, so it's going to work?
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