On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 11:33 +0000, Arthur Marsh wrote: > When I tried doing a restart with the official Debian i386 build of > kexec, the machine did a hardware restart. > > I then added a line just after the call to do_stop in > /etc/init.d/kexec-load: > > ls /boot/vmlinuz* > > Then retried selecting restart from the kdm login menu. > > Sometimes kexec worked fine and I booted without going to the BIOS > start-up and GRUB menu, on other occasions the ls command revealed that > the newer /boot/vmlinuz* files were absent and only some files normally > hidden underneath the /boot mount-point were visible. > > So it appears that /boot was sometimes not mounted, even though the > message about unmount local file systems appeared much later in the > shutdown process. > > Can you suggest any further debugging ideas? > > Arthur.
The only thing I can think of right now is to insert "/bin/mount" command before the ls in kexec-load script to see which filesystems are still mounted when kexec-load runs. I am a little hesitant to suggest that since mount command might hang depending upon the state of system at that point. If you are willing to try it, we can find out if /boot has already been unmounted when you see a kexec failure. -- Khalid =================== Khalid Aziz kha...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
