From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 17 16:17:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA06876 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 16:17:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA06844 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 16:17:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA00947; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 00:16:28 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <3629250A.42D9A28D@tdx.co.uk> Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 00:15:22 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX - The Digital eXchange X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b2 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Jackson CC: Chuck Robey , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: panic References: <19981017180257.A21925@TOJ.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tom Jackson wrote: > [snip] > > I'm getting this crash, not on elf(kernel+exec)/smp/scsi but on a old > Thinkpad with a pccard ed0, a elf(kernel+exec)/up/ide. Thought since the > reference to modules that pcvt instead of sc0 might work - no such luck. > I get the panic right after the pcic is probed and before the pccard is > initialized. > > I'm not getting any crash dumps on any of my elf systems. Hi, I've been talking to Chuck about this - if the panic is similar / the same as his, you won't get a crashdump - as it's happening too soon into the boot process... The only thing I could think of was to have a line similar to: config kernel root on XXX dumps on YYYY In the kernel config - Though LINT warns against this, it might be the only way of telling the system where to dump to - as it's panics so soon during boot... I'm hoping someone who knows more what there talking about will step in with "That's a good/bad idea" - and why... I seem to remember using the kernel config to specify the dump device, but that was from ages ago (2.2.2? :-) Regards, Karl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message