Auto Reboot after Kernel Panic

Add panic=5 to the kernel boot parameter in grub. Kernel will reboot 5 secs after kernel panic. For example,

kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.26.5-45.fc9.x86_64 ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet panic=5

Alternatively, add kernel.panic=5 in /etc/sysctl.conf. This will be loaded after next reboot or you can manually load it sysctl -p. To check,

# sysctl -a |grep kernel.panic
kernel.panic_on_unrecovered_nmi = 0
kernel.panic_on_oops = 1
kernel.panic = 5

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