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Date:      Sun, 30 Jun 2002 16:44:27 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Charles Sprickman <freebsd@fasttrackmonkey.com>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: getting a coredump before boot device found
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSX.4.44.0206301642310.1343-100000@white.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0206301325580.86477-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>

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On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Julian Elischer wrote:

> at that stage  abut all you can do is live debugging..

Meaning boot kernel.debug directlly so I've got a kernel with symbols and
then get out the pen and paper?

> do you have 2 machines you can link together?

Oh yes.  But I know nothing about remote gdb.

Charles

>
> 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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