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To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch)
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Subject: Re: kern/794 
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Date: Thu, 09 May 1996 12:59:28 +0000
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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> As Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 
> > > So we might better document it in the handbook, and in the sample
> > > config files?
> > 
> > True, I meant dumpon(8)...
> 
> Me too :), so this doesn't change a bit.  dumpon(8) is not needed if
> you specify ``dumps on sd0'' in the config file.  ``dumps on'' is
> needed if you wanna enable early core dumping (before you've got the
> chance to start a shell).

So should we change our code to put dumps starting 8k into the selected
partition ?

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