I can't get kdump to work under a 2.6.22 kernel. I'm running on 2-processor x86_64 box. It has 2 scsi disks, /dev/sda and /dev/sdb Any capture kernel that I load with kexec and boot on a panic only finds sda. the system kernel configuration has: CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y CONFIG_KEXEC=y CONFIG_SYSFS=y # CONFIG_RELOCATABLE CONFIG_SMP=y CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x200000 # CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP # CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE kexec is executed as: /sbin/kexec -p /boot/vmlinux-kdump --append=" 1 CRASH=1 root=/dev/sdb3 irqpoll console=ttyS0,38400n8 maxcpus=1 1" --initrd=/boot/initrd-kdump --args-linux The ATA scsi driver is not waiting to find the second disk. I put some printk's into the driver and get this: Standalone: [nv_adma_error_handler] cpw: ata_host_register probe port 1 (error_handler:ffffffff81348625) cpw: ata_host_register call ata_port_probe cpw: ata_host_register call ata_port_schedule cpw: ata_host_register call ata_port_wait_eh cpw: ata_port_wait_eh entered cpw: ata_port_wait_eh, preparing to wait ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) cpw: ata_dev_configure entered cpw: ata_dev_configure testing class cpw: ata_dev_configure class is ATA_DEV_ATA ata2.00: ATA-6: ST3200822AS, 3.01, max UDMA/133 ata2.00: 390721968 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 cpw: ata_dev_configure exiting cpw: ata_dev_configure entered cpw: ata_dev_configure testing class cpw: ata_dev_configure class is ATA_DEV_ATA cpw: ata_dev_configure exiting cpw: ata_dev_set_mode printing: ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133 cpw: ata_port_wait_eh, finished wait cpw: ata_port_wait_eh exiting cpw: ata_host_register done with probe port 1 When loaded with kexec and booted on a panic: cpw: ata_host_register probe port 1 (error_handler:ffffffff81348625) cpw: ata_host_register call ata_port_probe cpw: ata_host_register call ata_port_schedule cpw: ata_host_register call ata_port_wait_eh cpw: ata_port_wait_eh entered cpw: ata_port_wait_eh, preparing to wait ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) cpw: ata_port_wait_eh, finished wait cpw: ata_port_wait_eh exiting cpw: ata_host_register done with probe port 1 There is currently some device (udev?) problem with the 2.6.23 kernel. Could this be related? -Cliff Wickman SGI