Start of kdump Fails with " Could not find a free area of memory of 5f3001 bytes... ELF exec load failed"

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Issue

  • Attempting to configure kdump after installing the package
  • During boot with kdump enabled, receiving errors:
kdump: Could not find a free area of memory of 5f3001 bytes... ELF exec load failed
kdump: kexec: failed to load kdump kernel
kdump: failed to start up

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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