diff --git a/00-default.conf b/00-default.conf
index f7cca48..e810495 100644
--- a/00-default.conf
+++ b/00-default.conf
@@ -16,9 +16,15 @@
 #  relies in having an available RAM buffer on /proc/iomem with at least
 #  PSTORE_MEM_AMOUNT (decimal, in MB) in size. Also, kernel must be able to
 #  allocate a contiguous memory amount of PSTORE_RECORD_SZ (decimal, MB).
+#  If there is no such RAM buffer, there is a possibility to make use of
+#  the crash kernel area for that. There are risks: such memory area could
+#  have its address mapped differently across kernel updates; also if both
+#  pstore and the kdump kernel are loaded, that memory region will be for
+#  sure corrupted by the kexec panic load - so, kind of a last resource.
 USE_PSTORE_RAM=1
 PSTORE_MEM_AMOUNT=4194304
 PSTORE_RECORD_SZ=1048576
+PSTORE_RAM_USE_CRASH_MEM=0
 #
 #
 #  Mount-related options
diff --git a/kdumpst-load.sh.in b/kdumpst-load.sh.in
index cec33c6..c28b925 100644
--- a/kdumpst-load.sh.in
+++ b/kdumpst-load.sh.in
@@ -77,10 +77,14 @@ clear_all_initrds() {
 #  Next routine parses /proc/iomem to obtain the biggest RAM buffer
 #  available. Saves the results in 2 global variables: MEM_{SIZE,START}.
 parse_ram_buffers() {
-	BUFFERS="$(grep "RAM buffer" /proc/iomem)"
+	BUFFERS="$(grep "$1" /proc/iomem)"
 	while read -r line
 	do
-		RANGE=$(echo "$line" | cut -f1 -d\ )
+		RANGE=$(echo "$line" | sed 's/^[[:space:]]*//g' | cut -f1 -d:)
+
+		if [ "${RANGE}" == '' ]; then
+			continue
+		fi
 
 		MEM_END=$(echo "$RANGE" | cut -f2 -d-)
 		MSTART=$(echo "$RANGE" | cut -f1 -d-)
@@ -155,7 +159,11 @@ if [ "${USE_PSTORE_RAM}" -eq 1 ]; then
 	RECORD_SIZE="${PSTORE_RECORD_SZ}"
 	MEM_SIZE=0
 
-	parse_ram_buffers
+	parse_ram_buffers "RAM buffer"
+
+	if [ "${MEM_SIZE}" -eq 0 ] && [ "${PSTORE_RAM_USE_CRASH_MEM}" -eq 1 ]; then
+		parse_ram_buffers "Crash kernel"
+	fi
 
 	if [ "${MEM_SIZE}" -gt 0 ]; then
 		if modprobe ramoops mem_address=0x"${MEM_START}" mem_size="${MEM_REQUIRED}" record_size="${RECORD_SIZE}"; then