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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Vladimir Grebenschikov <vova@sw.ru>
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Subject: Re: setting dumpdev while boot on 7-CURRENT
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On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 03:27:24PM +0400, Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I am trying to figure out how to setup dumpdev while kernel build or
> from loader.
> 
> Looks like it is impossible to use old (very old) way with flags.
> 
> dumpdev loader variable described here:
> http://freebsd-man.page2go2.com/man8/loader_8.html
> 
> is not work and event not present any more in laoder.8:
> ----------------------------
> revision 1.70
> date: 2004/09/30 15:27:37;  author: ru;  state: Exp;  lines: +0 -7
> Setting dump device from loader(8) has not been supported since 2002.
> ----------------------------
> 
> Any hints how it should work ?

Unfortunately it has not been supported since (apparently) 2002.

Kris