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Old 19th July 2012, 12:48 PM
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the kdump failed to start with "BzImage is not relocatable. Can't be used as capture"

Hi All.

I have an imge of FC 17 on VMWare.

Host machine x86_64: Win7 x64
Guest system: x88 FC 17 1GB RAM
Linux localhost.localdomain 3.4.4-5.fc17.i686 #1 SMP Thu Jul 5 20:17:29 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

I'm faced with troubles to enable kdump on gust system. The kdump failed to start with kexec error:

BzImage is not relocatable. Can't be used as capture kernel.
Cannot load /boot/vmlinuz-3.4.4-5.fc17.i686

More info:
[spoiler]

[root@localhost ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 23
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9600 @ 2.80GHz
stepping : 10
microcode : 0xa07
cpu MHz : 2801.000
cache size : 6144 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 13
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts xtopology tsc_reliable aperfmperf pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 hypervisor lahf_lm ida dts
bogomips : 5602.00
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 23
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9600 @ 2.80GHz
stepping : 10
microcode : 0xa07
cpu MHz : 2801.000
cache size : 6144 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 13
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts xtopology tsc_reliable aperfmperf pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 hypervisor lahf_lm ida dts
bogomips : 5602.00
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

[root@localhost ~]#



[root@localhost ~]# cat /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.4.4-5.fc17.i686 root=/dev/mapper/vg-lv_root ro rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 KEYTABLE=us SYSFONT=True rd.lvm.lv=vg/lv_root rd.luks=0 rd.lvm.lv=vg/lv_swap LANG=en_US.UTF-8 crashkernel=256M quiet rhgb
[root@localhost ~]#


[root@localhost ~]# cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 765732 kB
MemFree: 580532 kB
Buffers: 16352 kB
Cached: 122700 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 66264 kB
Inactive: 94336 kB
Active(anon): 21920 kB
Inactive(anon): 528 kB
Active(file): 44344 kB
Inactive(file): 93808 kB
Unevictable: 0 kB
Mlocked: 0 kB
HighTotal: 143304 kB
HighFree: 16232 kB
LowTotal: 622428 kB
LowFree: 564300 kB
SwapTotal: 1048572 kB
SwapFree: 1048572 kB
Dirty: 0 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
AnonPages: 21588 kB
Mapped: 13128 kB
Shmem: 908 kB
Slab: 17344 kB
SReclaimable: 9952 kB
SUnreclaim: 7392 kB
KernelStack: 696 kB
PageTables: 688 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
WritebackTmp: 0 kB
CommitLimit: 1431436 kB
Committed_AS: 114612 kB
VmallocTotal: 122880 kB
VmallocUsed: 3084 kB
VmallocChunk: 119224 kB
HardwareCorrupted: 0 kB
AnonHugePages: 4096 kB
HugePages_Total: 0
HugePages_Free: 0
HugePages_Rsvd: 0
HugePages_Surp: 0
Hugepagesize: 4096 kB
DirectMap4k: 16376 kB
DirectMap4M: 888832 kB
[root@localhost ~]#


[root@localhost ~]# kexec -v
kexec-tools 2.0.3 released 27 January 2012
[root@localhost ~]#

[/spoiler]

Can you help me with troubleshooting?

Last edited by AlexanderFloyd; 19th July 2012 at 12:58 PM.
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Old 23rd July 2012, 04:41 PM
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Re: the kdump failed to start with "BzImage is not relocatable. Can't be used as capt

The root cause of problem: kernel was compiled without relocatable option.

And bad news: x86-32 couldn't be recompiled as relocatable. This option automatically disabled at compilations
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