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The zfcpdump kernel is built without module support. Furthermore the initrd doesn't contain modprobe. So trying to load modules using modprobe in zfcpdump userspace doesn't really make sense. Signed-off-by: Philipp Rudo <prudo@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Steffen Maier <maier@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
zfcpdump: S390 SCSI dump tool (Version 3) ========================================= zfcpdump is used for creating System dumps for Linux on System z. It has two parts: a zfcpdump enabled Linux kernel and a user space application. This is the 3rd version of zfcpdump which uses the upstream kernel version 3.12 or above. This version writes the dump to a partition in contrast to the previous versions where the dump was written to a file system. The user space application of zfcpdump can reside either in an intitramfs or an initrd. It reads from /proc/vmcore, provided by the kernel part, and writes the system dump to a SCSI disk partition. To build a zfcpdump enabled kernel use the following settings in your kernel configuration: * CONFIG_ZFCPDUMP=y * CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y * CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION=y for using GPT disk layout * CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION=y for using MSDOS disk layout * BLK_DEV_SD=y * Enable ZFCP driver * Enable SCSI driver * Disable as many features as possible to keep the kernel small. E.g. network and file system support is not needed at all. You can use "make zfcpdump_defconfig" as a starting point for your kernel configuration. * Issue "make bzImage" to build the zfcpdump kernel image. In a Linux distribution the zfcpdump enabled kernel image must be copied to /lib/s390-tools/zfcpdump/zfcpdump_part.image, where the s390 zipl tool is looking for the dump kernel when preparing a SCSI dump disk. Create and install initrd ========================= * make Builds "cpioinit" and statically linked "zfcpdump" application. Then cpioinit is used to integrate the zfcpdump application into the cpio archive zfcpdump_part.rd. * make install The initrd zfcpdump_part.rd is installed to "/lib/s390-tools/zfcpdump/". Additional information ====================== For more information on how to use zfcpdump and zipl refer to the s390 'Using the Dump Tools' book, which is available from: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390.