On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 12:49:48PM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to figure something out but the man pages seem a bit > ambiguous. If I specify the "--initrd" option when loading a kernel > for use on panic, does the initrd get copied into kernel memory at > that point or does it get loaded from the specified path after the > panic when the new kernel is booting? Yes, it gets loaded in kernel memory once kexec -p returns successfuly. For more internals, have a look at. http://lse.sourceforge.net/kdump/documentation/ols2oo5-kdump-paper.pdf Vivek
