Hi, I am trying to use the kexec to load a compiled kernel in a virtual machine that is ran using qemu. Here are the steps that I followed. 1. Compiled kernel on my Ubuntu to create bzImage. 2. Copied this bzImage to the virtual machine(debian) 3. In the virtual machine, I created an initial ramdisk using the command *mkinitramfs -o initrd.img* 4. I loaded the image to the kernel using the command *kexec -l bzImage --append="`root=UUID=<string> ro quiet`" --initrd=initrd.img*. The append was done based on /proc/cmdline. 5. Now I did a *kexec -e * which after some warning messages dropped me in to an initramfs prompt. One of the warning read as follows */dev/disk/by-uuid/<string> * *does not exist.* Can you please tell me what I am doing wrong? Please note that I have *CONFIG_KEXEC=y *on my current kernel of debian VM . -- *Regards,* *Paul Davies C* vivafoss.blogspot.com