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Date:      Wed, 29 Mar 2000 09:33:30 +0200
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: DDB and dumping disk
Message-ID:  <20000329093330.D7178@lucifer.bart.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003281910140.25855-100000@green.dyndns.org>; from green@FreeBSD.org on Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 07:13:34PM -0500
References:  <20000328132626.F94986@lucifer.bart.nl> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003281910140.25855-100000@green.dyndns.org>

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-On [20000329 02:15], Brian Fundakowski Feldman (green@FreeBSD.org) wrote:
>On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote:
>
>> Your patch is a step in the right direction.
>> 
>> I am currently only trying to figure out why the DDB way doesn't trigger
>> savecore to recognise the dump.
>
>Did you try "call setdumpdev(0xf00)" with the proper show disk/ yet?

No.  Will try ASAP.  Thanks.

>It's probably worth documenting the procedure even if it will be later
>be replaced with a loader functionality... however, we should still
>support the way it is now for people who want to get a dump but don't
>have the ability to use loader(8) fully (Alpha?).

Yes it is worth documenting, and I thought that Sheldon was already on
the right way with his dumpon(8) patches.

I prolly only need this extra step to solve the dump `problem' which is
mostly caused due to my lack of system coredump knowledge.

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Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven          Network- and systemadministrator
<asmodai@bart.nl>                      VIA NET.WORKS The Netherlands
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