kdump on ia64 with 2.6.20-rc4 > no vmcore ?

[vgoyal at in.ibm.com (Vivek Goyal)]

On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 03:14:28PM +0900, Horms wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 01:06:11PM +0100, Welterlen Benoit wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I try kdump with 2.6.20-rc4 kernel from kernel.org.
> > I successfully reboot on the debug kernel after c sys-rq but I have an
> > error :
> > Kdump: vmcore not initialized
> 
> Were exactly are you seeing that message?
> 
> And as a stab in the dark, is CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE (and CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP)
> enabled in your dump-capture kernel?
> 

Above message code gets compiled out if CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE=n. So this
options must have been enabled.

Looks like some problems with ELF header parsing/creation.

There are more error messages in vmcore.c. Do you see any of those?

Thanks
Vivek