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kexec'd kernel fails to locate RSDP on an EFI system #167
Others have experienced similar issues surrounding kdump on efi systems:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2012-October/006924.html
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2010-March/003889.html
A simple solution seems to be adding the following to the kernel cmdline supplied via kexec in bootengine on efi systems:
acpi_rsdp=$(grep -m1 ^ACPI /sys/firmware/efi/systab | cut -f2- -d=)