kdump-tools requires a kernel to be loaded by kexec -p to work. There is no workaround on that. If your /boot/ does not contain a kernel, it could possibly use a kernel from somewhere else, but you would still need a kernel.
There is a pending patch that I have in the works that would postpone the creation of the initrd after the first reboot or after kdump-tools is first started. That would allow postinst to succeed and the installation would be fine. However, kdump-tools might still not work before proper configuration. About the GRUB support, it's used to add the crashkernel parameter to the bootloader, GRUB being one of the options supported. If your netbooting, it's very likely GRUB is not used at all or the local configuration is totally ignored, so you would still need to manually configure your netboot setup to add that parameter to the kernel command line. I will send a test version to a ppa that skips the initrd creation during postinst. Which series are you testing this on? Is it bionic? Cascardo. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1850548 Title: Unable to install kdump tools: post install script returning fail To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-power-systems/+bug/1850548/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
