Re: kexec / kdump kernel panic

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 17:18:21 PDT, Steven Truong said:

> /usr/sbin/kexec -p /boot/vmlinux
> --initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.18-kdump.img --args-linux
> --append="root=/dev/sda3  irqpoll init 1"

If the /boot/vmlinux is the one you usually use to boot, that won't work.

Your usual vmlinux is almost certainly linked to load at the 1M line,
and you need a kernel linked to load at the 16M line (as set in crashkernel=).

See the CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START config option, and there's other details
in Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt - it looks like you have most of it right,
except you need to build *TWO* specially configured kernels (your production
one with KEXEC support and a few other things, and then the dump kernel
with a different PHYSICAL_START and a few settings).

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