Kdump is configured properly but kdump service fails
Issue
- kdump is configured as per kdump documentation but service kdump fails with the following error.
#service kdump start
Memory for crashkernel is not reserved
Please reserve memory by passing "crashkernel=X@Y" parameter to the kernel
Stopping kdump: [FAILED]
No kdump initial ramdisk found. [WARNING]
Rebuilding /boot/initrd-2.6.18-164.el5kdump.img
Starting kdump: [FAILED]
- Memory for
crashkernelis reserved:
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.11.1.el5 ro root=/dev/sysvg/root crashkernel=128M@16M
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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