On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:38:28AM -0700, Jay Lan wrote: > Hi all, > > 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.) Not sure why you would see the kdump initrd image in the menu.lst, it is just a parameter sent to kexec. You might have more success filing a Red Hat bz (bugzilla.redhat.com), as the RHEL-5 kernel and kexec-tools are probably too old for discussion on this list. Cheers, Don