Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 02:33:35 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: is dumpon/savecore broken? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907220231310.33957-100000@freja.webgiro.com> In-Reply-To: <19990721193036.B12369@futuresouth.com>
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On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 02:19:37AM +0200, a little birdie told me > that Andrzej Bialecki remarked > > On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > > > > You can do it manually from /etc/rc. If it doesn't even get that far, > > > you used to be able to specify it in the kernel config but I do not know > > > if that is possible any more. > > > > I remember doing this once or twice from DDB - writing appropriate values > > to _dumpdev, as they appeared on running system. > > > > Of course, the system can be in such state that this could equally well > > do more harm than good... :-/ > > But lemme guess... > This won't work with a system that panics before it gets around to > probing the harddrives... > > This is one of my present problems :( Then use remote GDB - it works miracles, I can tell you, it's just like debugging any other user space program. See the section in the handbook on that. Andrzej Bialecki // <abial@webgiro.com> WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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