Kdump dumps to difference device from /etc/kdump.conf

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

Kdump captures vmcore to device difference from the one defined in /etc/kdump.conf.

For example, /dev/sda is set to dump, but actually dumped to /dev/sdb.

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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