* Alan Tyson <atyson@hp.com> [2008-01-08 16:59]:
>
> The reason is that the LKCD header as defined in crash does not match that
> used in SLES9. Now, I'm not familiar with any other distros that use LKCD
> v9 so don't know if this problem is unique to SLES9 or if it affects
> others.
>
> On SLES9, the element dha_kernel_addr of struct _dump_header_asm_s is not
> at the end of the structure. It's in between dha_header_size and
> dha_pt_regs so lkcd_dump_init_v8_arch() ends up with a zero for the load
> address instead of 0x04000000 (in the case I'm looking at).

That problem has always existed. Use the SUSE packages for crash which
contain a patch to detect this. You can get the package at
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/kdump/



Bernhard

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