I went ahead and removed diskdump anyways (trying to narrow down the causes), but bumped into another issue further along the build. :( LD .tmp_vmlinux1 drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x131ae5): In function `crash_read': include/asm/crash.h:42: undefined reference to `page_is_ram' make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 -Tim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Jones" <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> > diskdump doesn't write to files, but to partitions, by directly > writing to the disk controller hardware. (You also have a load of > SCSI drivers etc still compiled in btw). > > What you want is netdump. > > Dave