[TriLUG] help with diskdump

[heath petty]

Fedora core 6 uses the new kexec/kdump facility for core dumps and
kernel debugging.  The following article is for RHEL 5, however, it
works fine on FC 6:

http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_105_9036.shtm

-Heath

On 1/13/07, Tim Jowers <timjowers at gmail.com> wrote:
> Has anyone setup diskdump on Fedora Core 6? I rebuilt the kernel with
> CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=Y and am trying to set it up but receive this error when I
> try to initialize the partition:
> ERROR: Module diskdump does not exist in /proc/modules
>
> I check /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/ and yes, indeed, the only *dump* is
> joydump. So, of course modprobe gives me this:
>  modprobe diskdump
> FATAL: Module diskdump not found.
>
> So, now what can I do? I cannot find the module. Any good references on
> setting up Disk Dump? I listed the available packages with "dump" via
> yum list available | grep dump
>  and  installed one with no luck:
> rpm -qi kernel-kdump
>
> Thanks for any pointers,
> TimJowers
> P.s> I also see a tip from a few years back about the supported storage
> adapters but I'm not that far along yet to run into this:
> http://www.redhat.com/magazine/013nov05/departments/tips_tricks/
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