Re: rhel5.6 kdump initrd problem?

2011-09-28 Thread Ken'ichi Ohmichi
Hi Jay, On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:38:11 -0700 Jay Lan j...@sgi.com wrote: I have a system running 2.6.18-238.12.1.el5 kernel. The kexec version is kexec-tools-1.102pre-126.el5_6.6. The kernel was booted OK. Then it ran /etc/init.d/kdump and a new kdump initrd image was created. A

Re: rhel5.6 kdump initrd problem?

2011-09-28 Thread Don Zickus
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:38:28AM -0700, Jay Lan wrote: Hi all, I have a system running 2.6.18-238.12.1.el5 kernel. The kexec version is kexec-tools-1.102pre-126.el5_6.6. The kernel was booted OK. Then it ran /etc/init.d/kdump and a new kdump initrd image was created. A kernel crash was

Re: rhel5.6 kdump initrd problem?

2011-09-28 Thread Neil Horman
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 09:08:42AM -0400, Don Zickus wrote: On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:38:28AM -0700, Jay Lan wrote: Hi all, I have a system running 2.6.18-238.12.1.el5 kernel. The kexec version is kexec-tools-1.102pre-126.el5_6.6. The kernel was booted OK. Then it ran

Re: rhel5.6 kdump initrd problem?

2011-09-28 Thread Jay Lan
Thanks to all who replied. Our problem was resolved. It was caused by two different configuration issues: 1) As Don and Neil said, the kdump initrd img should not be in the menu.lst. Not sure why it was there at first place. So we changed the boot line to use the orignial initrd img. 2)

Re: kexec: load-preserve-context option on s390

2011-09-28 Thread Simon Horman
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 03:09:09PM +0200, Michael Holzheu wrote: Hello Simon, I think the --load-preserve-context and --load-jump-back-helper kexec options are not working on s390 because we do not support CONFIG_KEXEC_JUMP. I assume the same is true also on other architectures. Correct me,