rhel5.6 kdump initrd problem?

[Jay Lan]

On 09/27/2011 11:38 AM, Jay Lan wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a system running 2.6.18-238.12.1.el5 kernel.
> The kexec version is kexec-tools-1.102pre-126.el5_6.6.
>
> The kernel was booted OK. Then it ran /etc/init.d/kdump
> and a new kdump initrd image was created.
> A kernel crash was triggered. The kdump kernel was booted
> alright. However, it failed to boot when it tried to boot
> back the regular kernel (now with the kdump initrd image
> specified in the menu.lst.)

I forgot to mention the failure message:
...
Saving to the local filesystem LABEL=xxxroot
findfs: Unable to resolve 'LABEL=xxxroot'

So, we did not have root fs and boot failed.

Thanks,
Jay

>
> Has anyone else seen this problem?
>
> Thanks,
> Jay
>