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Bugzilla – Full Text Bug Listing |
| Summary: | linuxrc: Boot installed system with kexec | ||
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| Product: | [openSUSE] openSUSE Tumbleweed | Reporter: | Dave Plater <davejplater> |
| Component: | Installation | Assignee: | Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | Jiri Srain <jsrain> |
| Severity: | Enhancement | ||
| Priority: | P4 - Low | CC: | mantel |
| Version: | 201503* | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Other | ||
| OS: | All | ||
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| Found By: | --- | Services Priority: | |
| Business Priority: | Blocker: | --- | |
| Marketing QA Status: | --- | IT Deployment: | --- |
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Description
Dave Plater
2008-10-07 08:47:21 UTC
Steffen, that's Linuxrc, not kexec. Case for usage:- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431703 Because of the catch 22 created by the new split kernel I could no longer boot my system. I used kexec on the rescue system to boot the new kernel and was able to discover that the bootloader wasn't updated. The old boot installed system would have booted with the dvd or cd's kernel. I am proposing being able to boot your installed system's kernel(s) from installation media boot menu. Hm, linuxrc already has a 'boot installed system' option. Didn't it work for you? Unfortunately I only have 11.0 dvd, I believe this feature returned with 11.1 somewhere and I have scarce bandwidth for dvd download. The old linuxrc boot installed system (10.3) booted with its own kernel and not the installed systems one, or so it seemed to me. I was proposing a method of booting with installed system's kernel. I apologize if this is already implemented in some way. sorry missed needinfo checkbox Ok, I thought you were talking about 11.1 as that's what you filed the bug against. Anyway, I basically agree with you (see bug 373569) but I don't have time to implement something. Hubert, if you are interested... Just going through a bootloader nightmare after updating 11.1 from rc1 to retail dvd. The repair system boot installed system doesn't work and the only way I can boot is via kexec from rescue system, it would have been nice to have an easy kexec function available on dvd to speed up the debugging of the process. For example a script in rescue system to mount installed system root and and load kernel via kexec and then reboot. The "boot installed system" hidden in "advanced options" in dvd system repair didn't work either. Changed to x86_64 and clean installed. All thats needed is:- kexec -l /mnt/boot/vmlinuz --initrd=/mnt/boot/initrd ;kexec -e to bypass a broken grub and boot installed system with installed kernel. This feature is still needed or is there an easy way to boot a system with a damaged boot loader? I messed up mine flashing the bios. . |