On 27/03/13 12:40, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 7:27 AM, Justin <jlec@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>
>> if someone is interested in implementing any infrastructure for a more
>> advanced usage of kdump for gentoo, please contact me.
>>
> 
> I've blogged a bit about this and wrote the wiki page.  However, the
> last time I actually tried to use kdump it wasn't working.  I don't
> remember the details.  I know I could boot another kernel immediately,
> but if I loaded a crash kernel it wouldn't actually boot on a panic.
> 
> It would be nice to have a more official solution for this on Gentoo.
> I don't mind messing around with it.  I don't have a ton of time but
> if you want to take the lead I can try to pitch in a bit.
> 
> Rich
> 

Hi,

Actually I don't need kdump that's why I asked for some input.

During the version bump today, I saw that fedora is providing lots of
script and services for it. So I thought someone might be interested and
port that to gentoo.

kexec itself is working fine on gentoo.

Justin