[Mkdump-devel] [URGENT] mini-kernel hangs with mkdump-3.0 and RHEL 3

[Mohammad M M. <mer...@ya...>]

Hi

I was trying to run mkdump with RHEL 3. But it hangs during booting after printing something like - 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
testing cast6 ECB encryption across pages (chunking)
testing cast6 ECB decryption
test 1 (128 bit key):
00000000000000000000000000000000
pass
test 2 (192 bit key):
 00000000000000000000000000000000
 pass
 test 3 (256 bit key):
 00000000000000000000000000000000
 pass
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Entries in /proc/mkexec/*:
echo 16 > /proc/mkexec/mem
echo "0x800002" > /proc/mkexec/dumpdev
echo "lpj=2367488 no-hlt" > /proc/mkexec/parameter
echo "arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin" > /proc/mkexec/path
echo 9 > /proc/mkexec/stats
echo 2 > /proc/mkexec/stats

My main kernel is RHEL 3 kernel with SMP enabled. mkexec module compiled and loaded without any problem.

As mini kernel I am using vanilla 2.6.12.2 kernel from kernel.org. mkdump is statically built with the kernel. initrd is disabled. Everything is statically built. No patch was applied on mini kernel (as said in the readme).

My Machine is: Dual Core AMD Opteron (TM) Processor 270

Why is mini kernel hanging at that stage? 

I will appreciate quick response.

Thanks,
-MMM





       
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