Re: Restart always restarts with kexec
On 2011-06-02 19:02 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Hi :)
>
> after building and installing a kernel-rt a restart will always restart
> with kexec.
>
> The whole story:
> I started with a clean Debian stable install, now it should be a clean
> testing install, but I guess it's an uncertain mix.
> I'm just about going to do a fresh Debian testing install, because now I
> know, that I need the testing release and I will avoid a confusing mix.
>
> For example, with driver "nouveau" for xorg.conf I'm able to use kernel
> 2.6.38-2-amd64 from the repositories, with driver "vesa" I'm able to use
> a self build kernel 2.6.33.9-rt31. I can't test if both would be ok with
> driver "nv", because there isn't such a driver for the installed version
> of X. Hence I guess it's better to do a fresh install of Debian testing,
> than fixing this and perhaps additional issues, that will appear soon or
> later, regarding to an uncertain mix.
A fresh install of testing is not going to solve this problem, because
the nouveau X driver in testing requires kernel 2.6.34 or later. If you
need the 2.6.33 RT kernel, you have to make do with vesa or fbdev (or
use the NVidia blob).
I cannot help with the kexec problem, sorry.
Sven
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