Hello, The /proc/vmcore is not present before or after the crash I load the kernel from grub pass parameter: crashkernel=256M mem=2048M bootmem_debug and then kexec -p bzImage --append="root=/dev/sda5 maxcpus=1 irqpool reset_devices" so i send request : echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger ok the kernel broken is loaded Now i have a question: The system is stopped and i receive the message: Switching back to console I assume that i need force reboot in this point, because system is freezed. i dont see the /proc/vmcore , /dev/oldmem contains few datas I miss some step? -- yermandu -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: oldmem.003 Type: application/octet-stream Size: 4096 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/attachments/20110602/e43e5d44/attachment.obj>