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@@ -39,8 +39,7 @@ SETUP
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and apply http://lse.sourceforge.net/kdump/patches/kexec-tools-1.101-kdump.patch
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and after that build the source.
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-2) Download and build the appropriate (latest) kexec/kdump (-mm) kernel
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- patchset and apply it to the vanilla kernel tree.
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+2) Download and build the appropriate (2.6.13-rc1 onwards) vanilla kernel.
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Two kernels need to be built in order to get this feature working.
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@@ -84,15 +83,16 @@ SETUP
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4) Load the second kernel to be booted using:
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- kexec -p <second-kernel> --crash-dump --args-linux --append="root=<root-dev>
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- init 1 irqpoll"
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+ kexec -p <second-kernel> --args-linux --elf32-core-headers
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+ --append="root=<root-dev> init 1 irqpoll"
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Note: i) <second-kernel> has to be a vmlinux image. bzImage will not work,
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as of now.
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- ii) By default ELF headers are stored in ELF32 format (for i386). This
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- is sufficient to represent the physical memory up to 4GB. To store
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- headers in ELF64 format, specifiy "--elf64-core-headers" on the
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- kexec command line additionally.
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+ ii) By default ELF headers are stored in ELF64 format. Option
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+ --elf32-core-headers forces generation of ELF32 headers. gdb can
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+ not open ELF64 headers on 32 bit systems. So creating ELF32
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+ headers can come handy for users who have got non-PAE systems and
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+ hence have memory less than 4GB.
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iii) Specify "irqpoll" as command line parameter. This reduces driver
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initialization failures in second kernel due to shared interrupts.
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