Re: crash versions 4.0-4.9 and later will not work with SLES9 IA64 dumps

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* Alan Tyson <atyson@xxxxxx> [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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