like I said "..Different kernels, official and third-parties, still fails..." Same Centos on a VM (as a guest on the box where kdump fails) starts kdump fine.
smells like the hardware. Dell tech, are you there guys? On 06/01/17 17:00, [email protected] wrote: > > Oh and btw, is there any reason that you're running 4.9.0 > and not the usual 3.10.0 kernel on el7/centos? That might > explain some of the breakage.. > > Vincent > > On Fri, 6 Jan 2017, lejeczek wrote: > >> it does not start at all >> >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jan 6 12:45 >> var/lock -> ../run/lock >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Jan 6 12:45 >> var/run -> ../run >> ======================================================================== >> >> *** Creating initramfs image file >> '/boot/initramfs-4.9.0-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64kdump.img' done >> *** >> No memory reserved for crash kernel. >> Starting kdump: [FAILED] >> kdump.service: main process exited, code=exited, >> status=1/FAILURE >> >> Centos 7.x >> I've tried various args to crashkernel= but no help from >> it. Different kernels, official and third-parties, still >> fails. >> BIOS?? Some advise on Intel switch off IOMMU, which I did >> although it's AMD. >> >> >> On 06/01/17 14:57, [email protected] wrote: >>> What's your OS and what are the relevant parts of your >>> kdump.conf? >>> when you mention it does work. is it that it doesn't >>> kdump at all, panics >>> upon entering the kdump kernel or some other thing? >>> >>> Vincent >>> >>> On Fri, 6 Jan 2017, lejeczek wrote: >>> >>>> hi all >>>> >>>> mine does not, I have a few R815 none is good, and I've >>>> tampered with it in many ways, cannot get it to work. >>>> With IOMMU disabled still no good.... gee. >>>> >>>> best, >>>> L. >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Linux-PowerEdge mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Linux-PowerEdge mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge >> >> _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge
