Package: kexec-tools
Version: 1.101-kdump10-2
Followup-For: Bug #426506
It would be nice if "$USE_KEXEC" whould distinguish between three
states:
DISABLED:
/etc/init.d/kexec-load
Don't load any kernel
/etc/init.d/kexec
Don't use kexec on reboot
TRY_EXEC:
/etc/init.d/kexec-load
Don't load any kernel
/etc/init.d/kexec
Try kexec, but continue with a regular boot if no image
was loaded. Could use /sys/kernel/kexec_loaded on newer
kernels (>= 2.6.19) or just execute kexec every time.
FORCE_LOAD:
/etc/init.d/kexec-load
Do load the specified kernel
/etc/init.d/kexec
Do execute kexec
For me, TRY_EXEC is missing. When I have to upgrade our servers kernels,
I really would like to use kexec, because they have SCSI and a reboot
takes eons. Therefor I execute
kexec --command-line="$(</proc/cmdline)" --load /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21
by hand and do a reboot. Since "$USE_KEXEC" is set to 0 (I don't want
/etc/init.d/kexec-load to load the standard "$KERNEL_IMAGE" every time
automatically, I just want my specific kernel booted once using kexec),
kexec doesn't get used and the reboot takes the long BIOS road.
It actually would help if /etc/init.d/kexec-load wouldn't check for
test "$USE_KEXEC" = 1 || exit 0
but for the existance of "$KERNEL_IMAGE" itself
test -s "$KERNEL_IMAGE" || exit 0
The kernel would get loaded, if it exists, but only executed, when
USE_KEXEC is set to 1.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (989, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.21.5-laptop (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages kexec-tools depends on:
ii libc6 2.5-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
kexec-tools recommends no packages.
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