The post describes how to setup kdump on SuSE Linux Enterprise System (SLES) 10 and 11 to capture core dumps from Kernel panics and crashes. Kdump (kernel dump) provides a memory dump into a file named vmcore when the kernel has critical issue. Vmcore is often required to investigate the issue. The crash dump is captured from the context of a freshly-booted kernel, not from the context of the crashed kernel. Kdump uses kexec to boot into a second kernel whenever the system crashes. Kexec is a … [Read more...] about How to configure Kdump on SuSE Linux Enterprise System 10 and 11