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Re: [Fastboot] [Xen-ia64-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Kexec for Xen on IA64 (Take I

On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 16:06 +0000, TuskenTower wrote:
> > > > # kexec -l --append "dom0_mem=1G -- root=/dev/hda2" --vmm 
> > > > "/boot/xen.gz" "/boot/vmlinux.gz"
> > > > Cannot open `dom0_mem=1G -- root=/dev/hda2': stream error
> 
> Does IA64 kexec handle "--append" differently?  On x86_64 its
> kexec -l --append="dom0_mem=1G -- root=/dev/hda2" --vmm="/boot/xen.gz"
> "/boot/vmlinux.gz"
> note I put an equals sign after the "--append" and "--vmm".  I believe
> that /sbin/kexec thinks that you're trying to load the kernel.

   Thanks, I knew it had to be user error.  I missed the = after append.
That not only solved the execution of the kexec tool command, but
allowed the full kexec back into xen/dom0 to work too!  Must be a bug
somewhere with the NULL cmdline.  Thanks!

        Alex

-- 
Alex Williamson                             HP Open Source & Linux Org.


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