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From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To: Charles Sprickman <freebsd@fasttrackmonkey.com>
Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: getting a coredump before boot device found
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at that stage  abut all you can do is live debugging..
do you have 2 machines you can link together?


On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Charles Sprickman wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm wondering if there's any way to get a coredump on a machine that's
> panicing while probing ata-attached drives.  I'd like to help someone fix
> whatever this remaining ata bug is in 4.6 and -stable, but I'm stumped on
> how to do this.  I can break into the debugger, but my only option there
> to write a core is to "panic" again, but since there's no dump device
> configured yet...  chicken and egg...
> 
> Is this at all possible?  I couldn't find anything in the DDB manpage, nor
> in a quick google search.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> CS
> 
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