From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 30 13:44:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FA9A37B400 for ; Sun, 30 Jun 2002 13:44:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from angryfist.fasttrackmonkey.com (angryfist.fasttrackmonkey.com [216.223.196.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67CE243E1A for ; Sun, 30 Jun 2002 13:44:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@fasttrackmonkey.com) Received: (qmail 44668 invoked by uid 85); 30 Jun 2002 20:44:25 -0000 Received: from freebsd@fasttrackmonkey.com by angryfist.fasttrackmonkey.com by uid 1001 with qmail-scanner-1.10 (sophie: 2.9/3.56. . Clear:0. Processed in 0.063871 secs); 30 Jun 2002 20:44:25 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: freebsd@fasttrackmonkey.com via angryfist.fasttrackmonkey.com X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.10 (Clear:0. Processed in 0.063871 secs) Received: from unknown (HELO white.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com) (64.47.30.2) by 0 with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 30 Jun 2002 20:44:25 -0000 Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 16:44:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Sprickman To: Julian Elischer Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: getting a coredump before boot device found In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message