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How to edit grub2 to use kdump?

I was following http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_use_kdump_to_debug_kernel_crashes and in step 2 I need to add the line to grub.cfg, but grub.cfg is a shell I do not know how to edit it, most ...
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Trouble Logging Kernel Panic for Debugging

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 on AWS/EC2 and having a large number of hosts going belly up. I'm trying to enable kernel dumping, but when I simulate a kernel panic, there's no .crash file written anywhere ...
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Determining cause of Linux kernel panic

I'm running an Ubuntu 12.04 derivative (amd64) and I've been having really strange issues recently. Out of the blue, seemingly, X will freeze completely for a while (1-3 minutes?) and then the system ...