Unless I read it wrong, we've had kdump support in SLES since SLES 10 GA :)
Peter Linnell SUSE Linux Technical Specialist Tel: 1-415-308-3037 >>> Michael Holzheu <holz...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> 1/17/2013 07:38 AM >>> Hello Michael, On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:18:49 -0500 Michael MacIsaac <mike...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > Hello list, > > A customer is moving from SLES 10 SP4 to SLES 11 SP2. Can kdump be > used on these to capture dumps? I'm assuming SLES 10 SP4 is too old > (?) > > On http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/kernel-3.2.html I > read: "Using kdump also requires s390-tools 1.17 and kexec-tools with > s390 kdump support." > > On a vanilla SLES 11 SP2 system, I see: > > # cat /etc/SuSE-release > SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (s390x) > VERSION = 11 > PATCHLEVEL = 2 > > # rpm -qa | grep s390-tools > s390-tools-1.15.0-0.101.1 > > I also see a kexec-tools 2.0.0 RPM is available to install. > > So it seems vanilla SLES 11 SP2 system would not have the necessary > level of s390-tools. So is there a 1.17 version of the RPM available > for SLES 11 SP2? Thanks. To be able to use kdump on SLES11.2, besides of new kexec-tools and s390-tools packages you also would have to use a kernel that contains kdump support. I think also an updated mkinitrd is required for building a functional kdump initrd. So I think doing that all by yourself is very hard or almost impossible. Probably you have to wait until SUSE officially supports kdump. Michael ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
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