[CentOS] How to specify kernel version when restart kdump

Wed Mar 27 17:31:40 UTC 2019
Benjamin Hauger <hauger at noao.edu>

What do you mean? Wouldn't the kernel version always be the actual 
running version of the kernel that was booted?

Ben

On 3/26/19 6:16 PM, wuzhouhui wrote:
>> -----Original Messages-----
>> From: "Benjamin Hauger" <hauger at noao.edu>
>> Sent Time: 2019-03-27 00:15:21 (Wednesday)
>> To: centos at centos.org
>> Cc:
>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] How to specify kernel version when restart kdump
>>
>> kdump operates by booting a fresh kernel to capture the context of a
>> crashed kernel, and so the only way for kdump to dump a kernel is to
>> crash it and cause kdump to invoke its post-crash kernel.
>>
>> You can manually force a running kernel to panic (and invoke a
>> correctly-configured kdump) with the following command sequence:
>>
>>>      echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq
>>>      echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ben
> Hi, Ben
> 
> I think your response doesn't answered my question. I'm not asking
> how to trigger kernel crash and see whether the kdump is works, but
> asking how to specifying kernel version when start kdump service.
> 
> Thanks.
>>
>>
>> On 3/25/19 7:19 PM, wuzhouhui wrote:
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