Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 10:29:37 -0500 From: Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> To: "G.B.Naidu" <gbnaidu@sasi.com> Cc: jkb@ethereal.net, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how do I save crash dumps... (fwd) Message-ID: <20000506102937.L547@holly.calldei.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GHP.4.10.10005041148110.23210-100000@hpd14.sasi.com> References: <Pine.GHP.4.10.10005041148110.23210-100000@hpd14.sasi.com>
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On Thursday, May 04, 2000, G.B.Naidu wrote:
> I am sorry to post this question on this list. I know that this should go
> on to -questions list. I have posted it there but no body replied. Please
> read the following forwarded mail. I dont know why I am not able to save
> the core. Am I missing something?
Oops, more specifically:
> I made sure that dumping is enabled using the command: sysctl kern.dumpdev
> Thre output of the command is as follows:
>
> kern.dumpdev: { major = 0, minor = 131073 }
>
> When it paniced, it dumped something and said it succeded.
>
> But when I booted on a different good kernel, there is a line on the
> screen saying: checking for coredump ... savecore: no core dump
Are you booting all the way to multi-user mode? You'd need to
configure kern.dumpdev via dumpon(8) if not.
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|Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
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