No kdump initial ramdisk found.

[unix syzadmin]

Thanks,

I initiated the kernel panic as you suggested; I get this on the console.

SysRq : Trigger a crashdump
Kexec: Warning: crash image not loaded
Kernel panic - not syncing: SysRq-triggered panic!


On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Tanweer Noor <tanweer.noor at gmail.com>wrote:

> >> Add Boot Parameters
>
> add below line under /etc/grub.conf
>
>  kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2519.4.21.el5 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
> crashkernel=128M at 16M
>
>
> open /etc/kdump.conf and uncomment dump location to /var/crash/
>
> then run below:-
>
>  #  chkconfig kdump on
>  #  service kdump start
>
>
> Warning: This will panic your kernel, killing all services on the machine
>
> # echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq
> # echo "c" > /proc/sysrq-trigger
>
> if it does not dump core then run below
>
> service kdump start
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 2:24 PM, unix syzadmin <unixsyzadmin at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I am having issues configuring kdump on my linux server.
> >
> > # service kdump start
> > No kdump initial ramdisk found.                            [WARNING]
> > Rebuilding /boot/initrd-2.6.18-128.el5kdump.img
> > /etc/kdump.conf: Could not create user1 at server1:/var/crash, you probably
> > need to run "service kdump propagate"
> > Failed to run mkdumprd
> >
> > how did I configure kdump?
> > ====================
> > # grep crashkernel /boot/grub/grub.conf
> >        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.el5 ro root=/dev/sysvg/root.fs nohpet
> > nopmtimer powernow-k8.tscsync=1 crashkernel=128M at 16M
> >
> > # grep net /etc/kdump.conf
> > net user1 at server1
> >
> > The root user on this server is able to ssh to user1 at server1 without
> > password; tested this to be working with the following command line:
> >
> > #ssh -i /root/.ssh/id_rsa.us1 user1 at server1
> >
> >
> > Any suggestions or pointers is appreciated.
> > Thanks.
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