How do I enable system panic dumps, to disk, for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 on the s390 platform?

The ability to capture system dumps when a system or kernel panic occurs is critical to the root cause analysis process. To capture these dumps for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 on the s390 platform, under VM, there are a couple of options. The following steps take you through the process of setting up a DASD dump device.

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