From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jay Lan Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:07:55 +0000 Subject: Re: Zero size vmcore on ia64 Message-Id: <48B589EB.7030307@sgi.com> List-Id: References: <4104961b0808270201i64b1914ame2e6e90d316c6c7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4104961b0808270201i64b1914ame2e6e90d316c6c7@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org jidong xiao wrote: > Hi, All, > > I encountered the zero-size-vmcore issue on IA64. I remember last year > Nanhai submitted a patch which was intended to fix this issue, and I > noticed that patch is merged into mainline kernel. I am using > 2.6.27-rc2, which means that patch is included in my kernel.And after > the system > completed rebooting, there is nothing generated in KDUMP_SAVEDIR. Let > me know if I need to provide more information.Thanks. Which version of kexec were you using? The mismatch between kernel and kexec has caused me zero-size-vmcore problem. I need to switch kexec when i boot up a more recent upstream kernel or a sles10/rhel5 kernel. Regards, - jay > > Regards > Jason > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html