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I'm using Gentoo and I've carefully followed and triple-checked the instructions on the following page but the crash kernel will not boot so I don't get anything in /proc/vmcore:

http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel_Crash_Dumps

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  • I'd add more info to clarify your question if possible. There's not much here to go on.
    – DanteTheEgregore
    Oct 5, 2013 at 6:43
  • What happens when you try to boot it?
    – David Schwartz
    Oct 5, 2013 at 7:43
  • I agree not much to go on. @david, when the system crashes it just locks up. From what I understand, it's supposed to automatically reboot into the crash kernel at that point.
    – stackoverflowrocks
    Oct 5, 2013 at 11:58
  • How would you debug this if you found yourself in this situation?
    – stackoverflowrocks
    Oct 5, 2013 at 14:41

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It turns out the crashkernel itself crashes when I have the Mini DisplayPort connected. I've filed a bug:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62671

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