Software: - built 2 kernels images of 2.6.12-rc5-mm2 according to the specifcation in kdump.txt. Booted into the primary kernel with the kernel parameters: "root=/dev/sda5 vga=0x31a selinux=0 acpi=oldboot resume=/dev/sda2 elevator=cfq splash=silent crashkernel=64M@16M nmi_watchdog=2 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,38400n1" - loaded panic kernel using kexec with the parameters: "root=/dev/sda5 vga=0x31a selinux=0 acpi=oldboot resume=/dev/sda2 elevator=cfq splash=silent nmi_watchdog=2 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,38400n1" - set panic_on_oops and sysrq to 1. - After this caused system crash through sysrq-trigger.