On Wednesday 02 January 2008 04:21:00 am David Timms wrote: > Mohammed Omar wrote: > > Does Fedora supports kdump ? (especially F8) > > http://www.google.com.au/search?q=fedora+8+kdump > > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f8/iso/en_US/sn-Kernel.html#sn- >Kernel-Flavors http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_105_9036.shtm > > From the release notes, it seems like it should be available, however, > I don't see any separate kernel-kdump kernels since FC6, with the latest > being: > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/i386/ > kernel-kdump-2.6.20-1.2962.fc6.i686.rpm 25-Jun-2007 > > Following the kernel spec: > http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/rpms/kernel/F-7/kernel-2.6.spec?rev=1. >3405&view=log > > shows: > > For F8: > === > Revision 1.78 - (view) (download) (annotate) - [select for diffs] > Fri Aug 10 06:32:43 2007 UTC (4 months, 3 weeks ago) by roland > spec fix for kdump kernel > === > > For F7: > === > Revision 1.3214 - (view) (download) (annotate) - [select for diffs] > Tue Jun 5 04:44:46 2007 UTC (6 months, 4 weeks ago) by davej > * Tue Jun 05 2007 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> > - Allow kdump to read /proc/kcore. (#241362) > === > Revision 1.2918 - (view) (download) (annotate) - [select for diffs] > Sat Feb 3 17:13:17 2007 UTC (10 months, 4 weeks ago) by davej > remove last its of -kdump for 686 > === > Revision 1.2869 - (view) (download) (annotate) - [select for diffs] > Wed Dec 13 19:34:03 2006 UTC (12 months, 2 weeks ago) by davej > kill off -kdump for 686/x86-64 > === > > It seems the capability was disabled during F7 and is no longer supported ? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the default kernel now supported kdump, except on one of the PPC architectures (may be PPC64). > > If this is correct - the release notes {live} need an update, along with > the howto at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FC6KdumpKexecHowTo > > DaveT. -- Benjamin Lewis Fedora Ambassador ben.lewis@xxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- http://benl.co.uk./ PGP Key: 0x647E480C "In cases of major discrepancy, it is always reality that got it wrong" -- RFC 1118
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