From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 30 4:28: 4 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 A038337B400 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 04:28:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5E93343E67 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 04:28:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 30 Jul 2002 12:28:00 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 12:27:59 +0100 From: David Malone To: "Rath, Egon" Cc: "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: How to crash FreeBSD for educational purposes? Message-ID: <20020730112759.GA96513@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i 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 Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 01:15:36PM +0200, Rath, Egon wrote: > Or can i force the system to write the current memory content to the > dump-device without crashing the whole system? If you compile DDB into the kernel, you can break to the debugger (with ctrl-alt-esc) and then type "panic". David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message