I've seen this on EFI based systems with older kernel versions. It worked with the base kernel in utopic. If anyone has any more information that could potentially point me to a solution that doesn't require a kernel change that would be preferred.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to kexec-tools in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/686385 Title: kexec linux hangs Status in kexec-tools package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: kexec-tools sudo service gdm stop wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/natty/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/ubuntu-installer/i386/linux sudo kexec --load linux sudo kexec -e On the console I see [300.123] Starting new kernel then the box hangs, caps lock light flashing. I tried using netconsole, nothing got logged. NETCONSLOGR=192.168.1.20 echo "start" | netcat -q 1 -u $NETCONSLOGR 6666 sudo modprobe netconsole netconsole="@/,@$NETCONSLOGR/" (veyepar)juser@dhcp42:~$ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu natty (development branch) Release: 11.04 (veyepar)juser@dhcp42:~$ uname -a Linux dhcp42 2.6.37-8-generic #21-Ubuntu SMP Sun Dec 5 17:57:05 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux (veyepar)juser@dhcp42:~$ apt-cache policy kexec-tools kexec-tools: Installed: 1:2.0.1-2ubuntu3 Candidate: 1:2.0.1-2ubuntu3 Version table: *** 1:2.0.1-2ubuntu3 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kexec-tools/+bug/686385/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
