Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262561AbVDYMQG (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2005 08:16:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262577AbVDYMQF (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2005 08:16:05 -0400 Received: from ausmtp02.au.ibm.com ([202.81.18.187]:33747 "EHLO ausmtp02.au.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262561AbVDYMQA (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2005 08:16:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1114227003.4269c13be5f8b@imap.linux.ibm.com> To: vgoyal@in.ibm.com, akpm@osdl.org, "Eric W. Biederman" , fastboot@lists.osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, maneesh@in.ibm.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Fastboot] Re: Kdump Testing X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 6.0.2CF1 June 9, 2003 Message-ID: From: Nagesh Sharyathi Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 17:45:43 +0530 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on d23m0069/23/M/IBM(Release 6.51HF653 | October 18, 2004) at 25/04/2005 17:45:44, Serialize complete at 25/04/2005 17:45:44 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1153 Lines: 34 vgoyal@in.ltcfwd.linux.ibm.com wrote on 23/04/2005 09:00:03: > Quoting "Eric W. Biederman" : > > Nagesh Sharyathi writes: > > > > > Here is the console boot log, before the machine jumps to BIOS > > > after hang during panic kerenl boot > > > > Ok thanks. So this is manually triggered with SysRq > > and the kexec part works but the recover kernel simply fails > > to boot. > > > > It looks like that hunk of the ACPI code that messes up maxcpus=1 > > needs to be looked at. > It works well with Uniporcessor capture kernel. For the time being sufficient > to capture the dump but it is always good idea to be able to boot > and SMP kernel > as well. > > Vivek I verified on my machine where earlier kdump used to fail and after disabling CONFIG_SMP(ie CONFIG_SMP=n) crash kernel boots properly and I am able to take the memory dump Regards Sharyathi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/