<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Linux Crash HOWTO</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.63 "><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Introduction" HREF="intro.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="ARTICLE" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="ARTICLE" ><DIV CLASS="TITLEPAGE" ><H1 CLASS="TITLE" ><A NAME="AEN2" >Linux Crash HOWTO</A ></H1 ><H3 CLASS="AUTHOR" ><A NAME="AEN4" >Norman Patten</A ></H3 ><DIV CLASS="AFFILIATION" ><DIV CLASS="ADDRESS" ><P CLASS="ADDRESS" >nepatten@us.ibm.com</P ></DIV ></DIV ><P CLASS="PUBDATE" >2002-01-30<BR></P ><DIV CLASS="REVHISTORY" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" ><TR ><TH ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" COLSPAN="3" ><B >Revision History</B ></TH ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 1.0</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2002-01-30</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: NM</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Initial release.</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><DIV ><DIV CLASS="ABSTRACT" ><A NAME="AEN11" ></A ><P ></P ><P >This document describes the installation and usage of the LKCD (Linux Kernel Crash Dump) package. </P ><P ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><HR></DIV ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT >1. <A HREF="intro.html" >Introduction</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >1.1. <A HREF="intro.html#COPYRIGHT" >Copyright and License</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >2. <A HREF="howitworks.html" >How LKCD Works</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >2.1. <A HREF="howitworks.html#WHATYOUNEED" >What You Need</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >3. <A HREF="install.html" >Installation of lkcd</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >3.1. <A HREF="install.html#AEN44" >Installing From Source Code</A ></DT ><DT >3.2. <A HREF="install.html#AEN54" >Building and Installing LKCD Utilities</A ></DT ><DT >3.3. <A HREF="install.html#AEN60" >What Gets Installed</A ></DT ><DT >3.4. <A HREF="install.html#AEN63" >Installing LKCD Utilities From RPM</A ></DT ><DT >3.5. <A HREF="install.html#AEN67" >Patching the Kernel</A ></DT ><DT >3.6. <A HREF="install.html#AEN76" >Build and Install the Kernel</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >4. <A HREF="setup.html" >Setup, Test, and Running crash</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >4.1. <A HREF="setup.html#AEN87" >Setting up crash dump</A ></DT ><DT >4.2. <A HREF="setup.html#AEN94" >Testing crash</A ></DT ><DT >4.3. <A HREF="setup.html#AEN101" >Running crash</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="intro.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Introduction</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >