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KS2008: Bootstrap code: kdump kernel

KS2008: Bootstrap code: kdump kernel

Posted Sep 16, 2008 10:46 UTC (Tue) by maneesh_soni (subscriber, #7770)
Parent article: KS2008: Bootstrap code

Initramfs gets little more complicated in case of kdump kernel boot. It is used to automaticaly save the old kernel's image (/proc/vmcore) to a local filesystem or remotely thru NFS/FTP/SCP etc. It also does things like filtering the vmcore or other housekeeping jobs. Here also different distros have different approaches.


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