Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Kdump Reports Warning, "cannot stat"

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

When setting up kdump and executing the final restart step the following messages are displayed.

# service kdump restart
Stopping kdump:                                            [  OK  ]
No kdump initial ramdisk found.                            [WARNING]
Rebuilding /var/crash/boot/initrd-2.6.32-131.12.1.el6.x86_64kdump.img
cp: cannot stat `/lib/firmware/radeon/CYPRESS_rlc.bin': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/lib/firmware/radeon/CYPRESS_me.bin': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/lib/firmware/radeon/CYPRESS_pfp.bin': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/lib/firmware/radeon/JUNIPER_rlc.bin': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/lib/firmware/radeon/JUNIPER_me.bin': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/lib/firmware/radeon/JUNIPER_pfp.bin': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/lib/firmware/radeon/REDWOOD_rlc.bin': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/lib/firmware/radeon/REDWOOD_me.bin': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/lib/firmware/radeon/REDWOOD_pfp.bin': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/lib/firmware/radeon/CEDAR_rlc.bin': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/lib/firmware/radeon/CEDAR_me.bin': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/lib/firmware/radeon/CEDAR_pfp.bin': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/lib/firmware/radeon/R700_rlc.bin': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/lib/firmware/radeon/R600_rlc.bin': No such file or directory

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 or 6.2
  • kexec-tools

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