diff --git a/00-default.conf b/00-default.conf
index 1cd62d8..bb2b548 100644
--- a/00-default.conf
+++ b/00-default.conf
@@ -35,10 +35,16 @@ MOUNT_FOLDER="/home/.steamos/offload/var/kdump"
 #  If FULL_COREDUMP is !=0, we collect a full compressed vmcore, which might
 #  require a lot of disk space. The MAKEDUMPFILE_*_CMD settings refer to
 #  tunings on makedumpfile - we rely on zstd compression and maximum page
-#  exclusion for the full vmcore, mimic'ing Debian/Ubuntu kdump.
+#  exclusion for the full vmcore, mimic'ing Debian/Ubuntu kdump. We also
+#  base on Debian/Ubuntu for the KDUMP_CMDLINE_APPEND option - this contains
+#  the kernel parameters we append in the /proc/cmdline for the kdump kernel;
+#  the most important parameters are nr_cpus=1 (to save RAM memory usage and
+#  avoid some potential issues with SMP) and reset_devices (some drivers
+#  rely on that for proper kdump).
 FULL_COREDUMP=0
 MAKEDUMPFILE_COREDUMP_CMD="-z -d 31"
 MAKEDUMPFILE_DMESG_CMD="--dump-dmesg"
+KDUMP_APPEND_CMDLINE="panic=-1 oops=panic fsck.mode=force fsck.repair=yes nr_cpus=1 reset_devices"
 #
 #
 #  GRUB-related settings
diff --git a/kdump-load.sh.in b/kdump-load.sh.in
index 350e7da..67896d0 100644
--- a/kdump-load.sh.in
+++ b/kdump-load.sh.in
@@ -177,10 +177,11 @@ fi
 cleanup_unused_initrd
 grub_update kdump
 
-#  After some consideration, we've stolen the kdump parameters from
-#  Debian/Ubuntu implementation, it makes sense for us.
+#  The kdump kernel command-line has some parameters appended, check
+#  the configuration files in order to change that. We also remove huge
+#  pages settings here (and crashkernel reservation), to save memory on kdump.
 KDUMP_CMDLINE=$(sed -re 's/(^| )(crashkernel|hugepages|hugepagesz)=[^ ]*//g;s/"/\\\\"/' /proc/cmdline)
-KDUMP_CMDLINE="${KDUMP_CMDLINE} panic=-1 oops=panic fsck.mode=force fsck.repair=yes nr_cpus=1 reset_devices"
+KDUMP_CMDLINE="${KDUMP_CMDLINE} ${KDUMP_APPEND_CMDLINE}"
 
 #  To obtain the vmlinux binary path, try first using directly the command-line
 #  information. If it fails, then attempt prepending /boot into that (faced