mkdumprd Fails to Configure Mellanox Nics on RHEL 6.2 server

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

  • On hosts that use a Mellanox NIC and have kdump configured do dump via a 'net' device we see this error when generating a kdump initrd:
# service kdump restart
Stopping kdump:                             [  OK  ]
No kdump initial ramdisk                    [WARNING]
Rebuilding /var/crash/boot/initrd-2.6.32-220.7.1.el6.x86_64kdump.img
No module modprobe found for kernel 2.6.32-220.7.1.el6.x86_64, aborting.
Failed to run mkdumprd

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2

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