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Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 17:46 +0100, Harald Schiöberg wrote:
>> here is the script we use to boot an Openwrt from a running Openwrt.
> 
> Thanx!
> 
>> Make sure to have kexec-tools installed....
> 
> Indeed.
> 
>> kexec -l /mnt/openwrt-avila-zImage --append="rtc-ds1672.probe=0,0x68
>> root=$1 rootfstype=ext2 noinitrd console=ttyS0,115200 init=/etc/preinit"
> 
> Can I ask, just to be clear, and so there are no nasty accidents here,
> what *exactly* is /mnt/openwrt-avila-zImage?  I mean I understand it's a
> kernel, but I want to be sure in what format.  For example in my
> build_dir/linux-brcm47xx/ dir I have:
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 brian brian 2596986 2009-01-23 03:38 vmlinux
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 brian brian 2602200 2009-01-23 03:38 vmlinux.elf
> -rw-r--r--  1 brian brian  778706 2009-01-23 03:38 vmlinux.lzma
> 
> Is it by chance the vmlinux.lzma image, or one of the other two, or
> something else altogether?

it is the very image that ends up in ${TOPDIR}/bin/openwrt-avila-zImage
and is usually flashed in a seperate flash partition. (on another arch
it will certainly have another name.)

I doubt that there can be nasty accidents: you can always reboot, since
you don't touch the internal flash at all....

        harald


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