On 06.10.2010 12:16, Manuel Bouyer wrote: > On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 11:48:17PM +0000, Jean-Yves Migeon wrote: >> [...] >> >> XXX Currently, savecore(8) will fail to dump a PAE kernel in a !PAE >> environment (and reciprocally). So you need to sync and reboot >> with a kernel of the same mode as the one that crashed. Once the dump >> is successful, this does not matter anymore. > > Doesn't it work with savecore -N /the_right_kernel ?
No; in fact, dumplo is complete garbage, so savecore fails dumping the image. I suspect that the KREAD() in savecore.c does not read at the correct offset, and just sets garbage for dumplo. I have to see what code path takes savecore with -N, and where it differs from the case where it goes through getbootfile(3) when the booted kernel is different from the one that is about to get dumped. -- Jean-Yves Migeon jeanyves.mig...@free.fr
