Kris Corwin wrote: > I wasn't aware of the new driver, crash. I have now > built CONFIG_CRASH into my kernel. crash still has > trouble reading though. > > kris > > [root@f14 linux-2.6.9-22.0.2.EL]# crash -d7 ./vmlinux > > crash 4.0-2 > Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Red Hat, Inc. > Copyright (C) 2004, 2005 IBM Corporation > Copyright (C) 1999-2005 Hewlett-Packard Co > Copyright (C) 1999, 2002 Silicon Graphics, Inc. > Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Mission Critical Linux, Inc. > This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, > and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under > certain conditions. Enter "help copying" to see the conditions. > This program has absolutely no warranty. Enter "help warranty" for details. > > get_live_memory_source: /dev/mem On live systems, /dev/crash is used by default, but you're still getting /dev/mem. One reason that it would fail to use /dev/crash is if the following command doesn't show it: # /sbin/modprobe -l --type drivers/char If it doesn't find "crash.o" or "crash.ko" in the list, it will give up on the /dev/crash driver and default back to /dev/mem. Dave
