Bug#771671: /sbin/kexec: Unable to load kdump kernel on i386

2015-03-23 Thread Bacco, Mike
I was able to reproduce this same issue on bare metal HP BL460G7 server. After applying the attached patch the issue appears resolved. I verified I was able to load and then boot into the new kernel with kexec -e as well as successfully collect a core dump after executing sysrq-c. Thanks,

Bug#771671: /sbin/kexec: Unable to load kdump kernel on i386

2014-12-15 Thread Bernhard Übelacker
Hello, I tried to reproduce the issue in a i386 qemu VM and think I found something. Function is_crashkernel_mem_reserved tries to search for the start and end of the crashkernel reserved memory area. This is done by calling kexec_iomem_for_each_line and given a callback function as parameter.

Bug#771671: /sbin/kexec: Unable to load kdump kernel on i386

2014-12-01 Thread Louis Bouchard
Package: kexec-tools Version: 1:2.0.7-5 Severity: grave File: /sbin/kexec Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, When running kdump-config on an i386 VM configured with 2048M of memory and crashkernel=256M, kexec is unable to load the kdump kernel and exit with the following