Should crash be able to read a RHEL 3 hugemem dump? I've got a x86 14 GiB netdump vmcore taken under controlled conditions (e.g., system was booted and a crash dump manually invoked) that the crash(1) command doesn't like: vmcore: initialization failed netdump_data: flags: 5 (NETDUMP_LOCAL|NETDUMP_ELF32) ndfd: 3 ofp: 4b2b95e0 header_size: 4096 num_pt_load_segments: 1 pt_load_segment[0]: file_offset: 1000 phys_start: 0 phys_end: 90000000 netdump_header: 838a700 elf32: 838a700 notes32: 838a734 load32: 838a754 elf64: 0 notes64: 0 load64: 0 nt_prstatus: 838a774 nt_prpsinfo: 838a814 nt_taskstruct: 838a8a0 task_struct: 0 switch_stack: 0 Elf32_Ehdr: e_ident: \177ELF e_ident[EI_CLASS]: 1 (ELFCLASS32) e_ident[EI_DATA]: 1 (ELFDATA2LSB) e_ident[EI_VERSION]: 1 (EV_CURRENT) e_ident[EI_OSABI]: 0 (ELFOSABI_SYSV) e_ident[EI_ABIVERSION]: 0 e_type: 4 (ET_CORE) e_machine: 3 (EM_386) e_version: 1 (EV_CURRENT) e_entry: 0 e_phoff: 34 e_shoff: 0 e_flags: 0 e_ehsize: 34 e_phentsize: 20 e_phnum: 2 e_shentsize: 0 e_shnum: 0 e_shstrndx: 0 Elf32_Phdr: p_type: 4 (PT_NOTE) p_offset: 116 (74) p_vaddr: 0 p_paddr: 0 p_filesz: 396 (18c) p_memsz: 0 (0) p_flags: 0 () p_align: 0 Elf32_Phdr: p_type: 1 (PT_LOAD) p_offset: 4096 (1000) p_vaddr: c0000000 p_paddr: 0 p_filesz: 2415919104 (90000000) p_memsz: 2415919104 (90000000) p_flags: 7 (PF_X|PF_W|PF_R) p_align: 4096 Elf32_Nhdr: n_namesz: 4 ("CORE") n_descsz: 144 n_type: 1 (NT_PRSTATUS) 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 023b0dc0 00000001 00000001 00000063 00000006 00000063 00000000 00000068 00000068 66d80000 73d80033 ffffffff 021d0950 00000060 00010286 96c15f3c 00000068 00000000 Elf32_Nhdr: n_namesz: 4 ("CORE") n_descsz: 124 n_type: 3 (NT_PRPSINFO) 00005200 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 696c6d76 0078756e 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 Elf32_Nhdr: n_namesz: 4 ("CORE") n_descsz: 80 n_type: 4 (NT_TASKSTRUCT) 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 -- Kurtis D. Rader, Level 3 Linux Support ABC Service Center, Linux Change Team T/L 775-3714, DID +1 503-578-3714