On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 03:25:03PM +0530, Shan Kumar wrote:
> Hi Vivek/Maneesh,
> 
> I am Shan. Got your references from kdump.txt file in linux source
> documentation.
> I have a simple query on Kexec/Kdump things.
> I am using 2.6.15-git12-6-smp kernel in SuSE 10.1 linux.
> I want to install Kexec/Kdump, and try to do testing with system dump.
> I gone through the kdump.txt file, and followed the following steps.
> 
> 1)  Downloadedhe upstream kexec-tools userspace package from
>    http://www.xmission.com/~ebiederm/files/kexec/kexec-tools-1.101.tar.gz.
> 
>    Applied latest consolidated kdump patch on top of kexec-tools-1.101
>    from http://lse.sourceforge.net/kdump/ onto the previous source.
> 
> 2) Downloaded and built the vanilla kernel 2.6.16-rc6.
> 
> 3) Set the configuration CONFIG_KEXEC=y, CONFIG_SYSFS=y in the first kernel.
> 
> 4) U have mentioned to boot the 1st kernel with the command line parameter
> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"(e.g.)
>     Here I am just confusing. Do I need to edit the /boot/grub/menu.1st file
> to add [EMAIL PROTECTED] or I should pass [EMAIL PROTECTED] as the
> command line argument while executing /sbin/reboot?

both are same, choose either of them 


> One thing I am in doubt though I have downloaded the kexec tools, and
> applied the kdump patches on this, how the 1st kernel knows about this? The
> downloaded location is different than the kernel location. How can I
> implement the kexec features into the 1st kernel source code?

kernel code for kexec is already merged with mainline since 2.6.13

> One thing you have mentioned after booting to the 1st kernel, load the 2nd
> kernel using the following command
> kexec -p <second-kernel> --args-linux
> --elf32-core-headers --append="root=<root-dev> init 1 irqpoll maxcpus=1"
> 
> Do all the things go fine after the previous command executed?
> 
yes, and if you are having any errors please post them in the reply also
attach the .config for both 1st and 2nd kernels. 

thanks
Maneesh

-- 
Maneesh Soni
Linux Technology Center, 
IBM India Software Labs,
Bangalore, India
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone: 91-80-51776416
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