Description of problem: kdump kernel fails to boot if root fstyp not ext2, ext3 or minix. Root cause is mkdumprd; it hardcodes ext2, ext3 & minix into the generated initrd. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 9 - kexec-tools-1.102pre-8.fc9.x86_64 How reproducible: I my case, fstyp of root file system was reiserfs. Steps to Reproduce 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: Perhaps the mkdumprd script could be enhanced to extract fstyp from fstab ?
kdump only supports root filesystems that are ext2/3 or minix. If you have a root filesystem that is not one of those types, then you need to select an alternate dump target (see kdump.conf)