Comment 26 for bug 710733

I ran through the steps on an identical machine and realized that update-initramfs was leaving untouched the kernel I was using (3.0.0-15-generic). Went back to the original machine, switched to a different kernel (3.0.0-12-server), and can reliably generate a crash file there. Other kernels refuse to reboot automatically, though.

Do you know what's required to get a crash dump with a different kernel? In /boot, I see all the same files there for both options. Thanks.