"No kdump initial ramdisk found" warning on a virtio Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 KVM guest

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Issue

  • The following warning messages are seen on boot on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 as a KVM or Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization guest:
No kdump initial ramdisk found.[WARNING]
Rebuilding /boot/initrd-2.6.32-131.4.1.el6.x86_64kdump.img
cat: /sys/block/vda/device/model: No such file or directory
cat: /sys/block/vda/device/type: No such file or directory
cat: /sys/block/vda/device/model: No such file or directory
cat: /sys/block/vda/device/type: No such file or directory
Starting kdump:[  OK  ]

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 as a virtual KVM guest

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