The issue is still present after upgrading to Tumbleweed 20200720, with the following (possibly) issue-related packages: * dracut-050+suse.67.g28be2f36-1.1.x86_64 * kernel-default-5.7.9-1.1.x86_64 * kexec-tools-2.0.20-5.2.x86_64 * kdump-0.9.0-13.2.x86_64 * systemd-245.6-2.1.x86_64 After some poking around I found that manual dump succeed with the following commands: systemctl start kdump-mnt1-var.mount bash -c 'source /lib/kdump/save_dump.sh' # From kdump-save.service However, manually starting `systemctl start kdump-save.service` will not work, it just brings me back the the rescue mode prompt. This leads me to think that perhaps the issue is not initrd-switch-root.service, rather, the issue is that kdump-save (or its dependencies) somehow fail to start.