"Gregg C Levine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello from Gregg C Levine normally with Jedi Knight Computers
> With Richard A. Smith's help, (from Bitworks) I have gotten the kexec > function to work on my back up system. That is on an appropriately > patched 2.4.2 kernel. Has anyone besides Eric, and Rich, and now myself > explored that function any further? At work I had an extreme amount of success with it. The big known bug is that it is possible that not all of the hardware drivers shutdown the hardware correctly. I have to explictily down the ethernet interfaces for them to shutdown. As a reference point you might try one of the floppy images in: ftp://download.linuxnetworx.com/pub/src/nbc Basically the same network booting functionality as etherboot is reproduced but with linux on a floppy. This is what I use for systems that I cannot use etherboot with for some reason. Anyway it provides a knwon good reference point for comparison. The point is that I have had quite a few people use my prebuilt floppy images without a bit of trouble. > I have since discovered that the > function does work as advertised, but since my system, is running with a > commodity bios, my setup, gets locked in a kernel panic, and I have to > reset the system, I do not think I am getting anywhere. This does not > mean I shall be discouraged. Just that I'd like to take this concept > onto a matching Linux BIOS configured motherboard. It is wearing a 430FX > based motherboard, with a Pentium, if that is any help. Hmm. I am distured that you have issues. And that Rich has issues. I will export the stability and apply ability of this shortly. I am currently writing an RFC style document on ELF booting, and after that I should have a little time to clean up my patches, and chase strange bugs. I think I am slowly coming out of pure researcher mode into maintainer mode. Time will tell. Eric
