On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:19 PM, Tim Hartrick <tim at edgecast.com> wrote: > America, > > To clarify, crashkernel=480 at 2G or @1G doesn"t work either.? Further, for > older kernels (2.6.32) it was possible to create crashkernel areas larger > than 480M (crashkernel=512M).? Starting somewhere around 2.6.36, this > stopped working.? Are you saying this was an intentional change? > No, I am not saying this. Depends on your machine, different versions of kernel may detect different memory ranges, so, you need to compare the output of /proc/iomem, or BIOS provided RAM map (in dmesg), on different version kernels, to know why that happened.