[OOT]: crash / kdump query

Mulyadi Santosa mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com
Mon Feb 6 11:33:01 EST 2012


Hi Adil...

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 18:03, Adil Mujeeb <mujeeb.adil at gmail.com> wrote:
> crash: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32.12-crash-crash: not a supported file format

I am not kdump/crash user at all, but the above error message seems to
give a hint that you indeed need to use vmlinux (uncompressed image)
instead of vmlinuz (compressed image).

Since you said you compile the kernel image by yourself, I am sure you
have it, right?

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Mulyadi Santosa
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