On 21 Jun 2001 22:41:49 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
>Question 1)
> At ftp://download.linuxnetworx.com/pub/src/linux-kernel-patches
> I have two patches.
> An older kexec-patches-1.0.tar.gz
> A new kernel-patches-2.4.2.eb1.tar.gz
>
>I'm guess you are using kexec from kexec-patches-1.0.tar.gz
>There are some very subtle bugs that might possibly be causing a problem.
>I've never found a way to tickle them, but you might have.
>
You are correct... I am using the stuff from the 1.0 tar. I will try the 2.4.2 patch
tomorrow. I saw that listed in the mail archives but from the context that looked
like
it was just your mtd hack.
>My standard practice has been to use compression at -5, but for
>the boot operation that should not make a difference. The only thing
I tried levels 1-9 in my testing all with various levels of sucess... seems like the
odd
compression levels were the ones that caused the oops but perhaps that was just a
fluke.
>I can get a much better idea if you take crash output through ksymoops
>so I can see kernel symbols where the crash occured.
>
Hmmm... I was afraid you would request that... That's gonna be a little difficult as
this
thing boots with a very minimal fs. I have 1 meg to boot in and the kernel eats
almost
half most of the other half are the pcmcia modules. I will see if I can duplicate the
problem using an IDE boot with one of the 32Meg CF devices I have. Thats probally a
good
test to do anyway.
What are all the files I need to put on my target to do a proper ksymoops decode and
how
do you get that info into ksymoops when the kernel hangs?
>Also it might be worthwhile to make certain you are downing your
>network interfaces before calling kexec. Unless you down your
>network interface the kernel does not disable the network cards. I
>have caught a problem where I received a packet over an eepro100
>network card after a kexec while I was running memtest86 3 or 4
>seconds after kexec was called.
Hmmm... that could be the oops problem... I most definatly am NOT downing the
interfaces.
As soon as wget is done fetching the new image I jump dirctly into a boot. I'll give
that
a go tomorrow first since thats an easy change in my netboot script.
Oh and BTW.. I think you flubbed a cp command for the nbc-1.4.tar.gz file on
donwload.linuxnetworx.com. Its exactly the same size as the 2 other image files and
gzip
complains that the file dosen't have a proper compressed header.
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