tictactoe wrote:Is there a way to load kernel with kexec on Insignia 8"? There is a web page:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/c … Kexec_boot
I tried it on silvermoon but the system hangs when executing "kexec -f -e". :-( Does any one know how to make it work?
Hi, tictactoe.
I've never used kexec but your post intrigued me.
Did you follow that web page literally? The script netboot.sh includes some kernel parameters that don't look correct for the Insignia Infocast 8.
Ssh to your Infocast and look at the output from running the command "cat /proc/cmdline"
On mine, at least, the kernel parameters are
root=/dev/mmcblk0p3 rootfstype=ext3 rootwait console=ttyS0,115200 mem=128M uart_dma init=/linuxrc sysrq_always_enabled ro logo.brand=insignia
You should modify the netboot.sh script accordingly and see if it still fails.
As an aside, I note that there is now a 2.0.2 release* of the kexec-tools source code. I've downloaded it and compiled it but haven't had a chance to take it out for a spin.
Regards,
Kent
* see http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/kexec/