Re: Need Help on Crash Dump in Kernel-2.6.20

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Tue Feb 27 2007 - 20:20:03 EST


On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:22:56 +0000 (GMT) Seetharam Dharmosoth wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have one question regarding Crash Dump.
>
> Is Kernel-2.6.20 having the default Crash dump in main
> tree?

2.6.20 has a CRASH_DUMP config option for some processor
architectures, such as ia64, i386, x86_64, powerpc.

You should read the help text for that config option as well
as the file Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt .

> As I know, LKCD is one of the Crash dump utility
> software which can be used with Linux Kernel (it is a
> third party s/w).
>
> can any one please tell me the right thing about Crash
> dump?



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~Randy
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