kdump fails to start on RHEL5 with "No crashkernel parameter specified for running kernel"
Issue
We are not able to start kdump, the kernel appears to not like the kdump kernel options specified.
Feb 23 10:28:05 server1 kdump: No crashkernel parameter specified for running kernel
Feb 23 10:28:05 server1 kdump: failed to start up
Environment
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5
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grub.conf with a valid crashkernel setting
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