Hello, Le 28/03/2012 09:50, HATAYAMA Daisuke a ?crit : > > Yes, I of course agree with the fact that makedumpfile for kdump 2nd > kernel should always be built in statically linked way. > > But I think two problems are different, that is, the problem making > users easily able to choose build option by autotools, and the problem > guranteeing that the makedumpfile for kdump 2nd kernel be built always > statically. > I don't see why it should be statically linked. Debian & Ubuntu both use a dynamically linked makedumpfile for the 2nd kdump kernel. Debian executes makedumpfile on the 'real' root FS while Ubuntu runs it in the initramfs. It is simply a chroot on the root FS being mounted on /root. HTH, ...Louis -- Louis Bouchard Backline Support Analyst Canonical Ltd Ubuntu support: http://landscape.canonical.com