diff --git a/scripts/hostcfgd b/scripts/hostcfgd
index cedafcd9..ab017ee0 100644
--- a/scripts/hostcfgd
+++ b/scripts/hostcfgd
@@ -1137,6 +1137,40 @@ class KdumpCfg(object):
                                 "memory": "0M-2G:256M,2G-4G:320M,4G-8G:384M,8G-:448M",
                                 "num_dumps": "3" }
 
+        # check if kdump is enabled by default with grub config
+        self.update_config_from_proc_cmdline = False
+        self.init_kdump_config_from_cmdline()
+
+    def init_kdump_config_from_cmdline(self):
+        # Update the kdump_defaults with value found /proc/cmdline if
+        # key "crashkernel=" is pre-defined in and /proc/cmdline (grub.conf)
+        if os.environ.get("HOSTCFGD_UNIT_TESTING") == "2":
+            modules_path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "..")
+            tests_path = os.path.join(modules_path, "tests")
+            cmdline = os.path.join(tests_path, "proc","cmdline")
+        else:
+            cmdline = "/proc/cmdline"
+
+        expected_str = ' crashkernel='
+        if os.path.exists(cmdline):
+            lines= [line.rstrip('\n') for line in open(cmdline)]
+            p = lines[0].find(expected_str)
+            if p == -1:
+                return
+            kdump_config = self.config_db.get_entry("KDUMP", "config") 
+            syslog.syslog(syslog.LOG_INFO, "kdump enabled is found in /proc/cmdline")
+            self.kdump_defaults["enabled"] = "true"
+            next_space = lines[0].find(" ", p+1)
+            if next_space == -1:
+                memory = lines[0][p+len(expected_str):]
+            else:
+                memory = lines[0][p+len(expected_str):next_space]
+            self.kdump_defaults["memory"] = memory
+            if not kdump_config or kdump_config.get("enabled") != self.kdump_defaults["enabled"] or kdump_config.get("memory") != self.kdump_defaults["memory"]:
+                self.update_config_from_proc_cmdline = True
+                syslog.syslog(syslog.LOG_INFO, "Update KDUMP config entry with data from /proc/cmdline")
+                self.config_db.mod_entry("KDUMP", "config", self.kdump_defaults)
+
     def load(self, kdump_table):
         """
         Set the KDUMP table in CFG DB to kdump_defaults if not set by the user
@@ -1155,6 +1189,10 @@ class KdumpCfg(object):
 
     def kdump_update(self, key, data):
         syslog.syslog(syslog.LOG_INFO, "Kdump global configuration update")
+        if self.update_config_from_proc_cmdline and os.environ.get("HOSTCFGD_UNIT_TESTING") != "2":
+            self.update_config_from_proc_cmdline = False
+            syslog.syslog(syslog.LOG_INFO, "Kdump is enabled by default with /proc/cmdline. Skip the first update")
+            return
         if key == "config":
             # Admin mode
             kdump_enabled = self.kdump_defaults["enabled"]
diff --git a/tests/hostcfgd/hostcfgd_test.py b/tests/hostcfgd/hostcfgd_test.py
index 2c9c03da..dd23247d 100644
--- a/tests/hostcfgd/hostcfgd_test.py
+++ b/tests/hostcfgd/hostcfgd_test.py
@@ -236,6 +236,31 @@ def test_kdump_load(self):
 
             mocked_subprocess.check_call.assert_has_calls(expected, any_order=True)
 
+    def test_kdump_event_with_proc_cmdline(self):
+        os.environ["HOSTCFGD_UNIT_TESTING"] = "2"
+        MockConfigDb.set_config_db(HOSTCFG_DAEMON_CFG_DB)
+        daemon = hostcfgd.HostConfigDaemon()
+        default=daemon.kdumpCfg.kdump_defaults
+        daemon.kdumpCfg.load(default)
+        daemon.register_callbacks()
+        MockConfigDb.event_queue = [('KDUMP', 'config')]
+        with mock.patch('hostcfgd.subprocess') as mocked_subprocess:
+            popen_mock = mock.Mock()
+            attrs = {'communicate.return_value': ('output', 'error')}
+            popen_mock.configure_mock(**attrs)
+            mocked_subprocess.Popen.return_value = popen_mock
+            try:
+                daemon.start()
+            except TimeoutError:
+                pass
+            expected = [
+                call(['sonic-kdump-config', '--enable']),
+                call(['sonic-kdump-config', '--num_dumps', '3']),
+                call(['sonic-kdump-config', '--memory', '8G-:1G'])
+            ]
+            mocked_subprocess.check_call.assert_has_calls(expected, any_order=True)
+        os.environ["HOSTCFGD_UNIT_TESTING"] = ""
+        
     def test_devicemeta_event(self):
         """
         Test handling DEVICE_METADATA events.
diff --git a/tests/proc/cmdline b/tests/proc/cmdline
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ddfc9197
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/proc/cmdline
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+BOOT_IMAGE=/image-202405.0-dirty-20250403.162657/boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-22-2-amd64 root=UUID=bba2ec4f-9141-4069-a41e-230ecac4a5fb rw console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8 quiet processor.max_cstate=1 amd_idle.max_cstate=0 sonic_fips=1 net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0 loop=image-202405.0-dirty-20250403.162657/fs.squashfs loopfstype=squashfs systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=0 apparmor=1 security=apparmor varlog_size=4096 usbcore.autosuspend=-1 amd_iommu=off pci=resource_alignment=48@00:03.1 crashkernel=8G-:1G
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