"kdumpbase" dracut module

Freeman Zhang freeman.zhang1992 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 21 20:41:21 EDT 2016


On 3/21/16 9:55 PM, Ronit Halder wrote:
> Thanks for helping
> 
> So, this module is used to dump the crash kernel.
> Am I right?
> If not then can you explain how kdump kernel calls the makedumpfile?
> 

You are absolutely right Ronit. By the time the second kernel is booted,
this module will start a service called kdump-capture, which will
execute kdump.sh, which will invoke makedumpfile after all, depending on
your kdump configuration.

All the best!
Freeman

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