----- "Adrien Kunysz" <adk(a)redhat.com> wrote:
 > When the vmcore is created by "snap", it first looks
at /proc/iomem for
 > the regions of physical memory that are dumpable.  Therefore it rejected
 > any physical address above f7feffff, which is the problem at hand. 
 
 
 f7ff0000-f7ffefff : ACPI Tables
 f7fff000-f7ffffff : ACPI Non-volatile Storage
 
 > Just for sanity's sake, what does "cat /proc/iomem" show?
 
 00000000-00099bff : System RAMcat 
 00099c00-0009ffff : reserved
 000a0000-000bffff : Video RAM area
 000c0000-000c9fff : Video ROM
 000ca000-000cafff : Adapter ROM
 000cb000-000cbfff : Adapter ROM
 000cc000-000ccfff : Adapter ROM
 000cd000-000cdfff : Adapter ROM
 000ce000-000cefff : Adapter ROM
 000cf000-000d4bff : Adapter ROM
 000f0000-000fffff : System ROM
 00100000-f7feffff : System RAM
    00100000-00318afa : Kernel code
    00318afb-00469ec0 : Kernel data
 f7ff0000-f7ffefff : ACPI Tables
 f7fff000-f7ffffff : ACPI Non-volatile Storage
 fbf00000-fbffffff : PCI Bus #01
    fbf80000-fbf9ffff : 0000:01:02.1
      fbf80000-fbf9ffff : e1000
    fbfa0000-fbfbffff : 0000:01:02.0
      fbfa0000-fbfbffff : e1000
    fbfc0000-fbfdffff : 0000:01:01.1
      fbfc0000-fbfdffff : e1000
    fbfe0000-fbffffff : 0000:01:01.0
      fbfe0000-fbffffff : e1000
 fc000000-fc4fffff : PCI Bus #02
    fc4e0000-fc4effff : 0000:02:03.0
    fc4fc000-fc4fffff : 0000:02:03.0
 fc500000-fe5fffff : PCI Bus #03
    fd000000-fdffffff : 0000:03:03.0
    fe5fd000-fe5fdfff : 0000:03:00.1
      fe5fd000-fe5fdfff : ohci_hcd
    fe5fe000-fe5fefff : 0000:03:00.0
      fe5fe000-fe5fefff : ohci_hcd
    fe5ff000-fe5fffff : 0000:03:03.0
 fe6fe000-fe6fefff : 0000:00:02.1
 fe6ff000-fe6fffff : 0000:00:01.1
 fe700000-fe7fffff : PCI Bus #01
 fe800000-fe8fffff : PCI Bus #02
 feafe000-feafefff : 0000:04:02.1
 feaff000-feafffff : 0000:04:01.1
 ff700000-ffffffff : reserved 
Apparently I don't understand /proc/iomem -- I was under the
assumption that it would show all "System RAM" segments.  Is
that not the case?
Dave