Messages in this thread | | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Subject | Re: kexec: Cannot determine the file type of arch/x86/boot/bzImage | Date | Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:27:19 -0600 |
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Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de> writes:
> Hi. > > Look at this: > > $ file arch/x86/boot/bzImage (tree 821f3eff7cdb9d6c7076effabd46c96c322daed1) > arch/x86/boot/bzImage: Linux kernel x86 boot executable zImage, version > 2.6.23 (thomas@hotzenplotz) #39, RO-rootFS, root_dev 0x803, swap_dev > 0x1, Prompt for Videomode > > $ file /boot/bzImage-2.6.23 > /boot/bzImage-2.6.23: Linux kernel x86 boot executable RO-rootFS, > root_dev 0x803, swap_dev 0x1, Normal VGA > > and this: > > # kexec -l arch/x86/boot/bzImage > Cannot determine the file type of arch/x86/boot/bzImage > > How to solve this error?
Looks like a kbuild error was causing us to build zImage kernels instead of bzImage kernels on x86 and thus kexec didn't recognize the format and so refused to boot it.
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