First you need to figure out the reason of your system failure. If its complete power failure, then kexec wont be able to load a new kernel in current context. Secondly, is kexec properly configured in your system?
Chandan Kumar Tata Consultancy Services Mailto: [email protected] Website: http://www.tcs.com ____________________________________________ Experience certainty. IT Services Business Solutions Outsourcing ____________________________________________ From: Gallus <[email protected]> To: "Discussion list for crash utility usage, maintenance and development" <[email protected]> Date: 02/09/2010 07:10 PM Subject: [Crash-utility] Reasons why kdump isn't activated Sent by: [email protected] Hi, what can be any reasons why kdump mechanism isn't triggered? My first though is that it means a hardware failure, not a kernel problem. Regards, Mariusz Gniazdowski -- Crash-utility mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/crash-utility =====-----=====-----===== Notice: The information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, use, review, distribution, printing or copying of the information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it are strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us by reply e-mail or telephone and immediately and permanently delete the message and any attachments. Thank you
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