From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 6 5:37:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from freja.webgiro.com (freja.webgiro.com [212.209.29.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C254914CBA for ; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 05:37:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@webgiro.com) Received: by freja.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 80CBF1912; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 14:36:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freja.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DC8E49D3; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 14:36:38 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 14:36:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: Ruslan Ermilov Cc: Warner Losh , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dumps before init? In-Reply-To: <19990906150724.I11485@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 05:39:01PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > > How does one enable dumps before init? > > > > Warner > > According to the dumpon(8) manpage: > > The dump device can also be specified at kernel compile time using the > ``dumps on'' clause in the kernel configuration file (see config(8)). > This is useful when the kernel panics before multi-user mode is reached. > Subsequent successful invocations of dumpon will override the compiled in > value. Hmmm... Wasn't this config line removed in -current? You can do it in -stable, though. Andrzej Bialecki // WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message