Hi Jay, On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:38:11 -0700 Jay Lan <jlan at sgi.com> wrote: > > > > I have a system running 2.6.18-238.12.1.el5 kernel. > > The kexec version is kexec-tools-1.102pre-126.el5_6.6. > > > > The kernel was booted OK. Then it ran /etc/init.d/kdump > > and a new kdump initrd image was created. > > A kernel crash was triggered. The kdump kernel was booted > > alright. However, it failed to boot when it tried to boot > > back the regular kernel (now with the kdump initrd image > > specified in the menu.lst.) > > I forgot to mention the failure message: > ... > Saving to the local filesystem LABEL=xxxroot > findfs: Unable to resolve 'LABEL=xxxroot' If specifying a dev name (ex. /dev/sda3) instead of "LABEL" in /etc/kdump.conf, what happens ? findfs command doesn't run in the kdump initrd if specifying a dev name. In addition, can you try `findfs LABEL=xxxroot` while the regular kernel runs ? Thanks Ken'ichi Ohmichi