Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 12:09:44 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to set dumpdev Message-ID: <200504281209.46273.thierry@herbelot.com> In-Reply-To: <20050428053528.G59099@lexi.siliconlandmark.com> References: <E1DR4FP-0003oy-Rv@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il> <20050428053528.G59099@lexi.siliconlandmark.com>
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> On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Danny Braniss wrote: > > i can't use dumpon, since the kernel is panicking on boot, so Hello, There used to be a "dump" directive in the kernel config file (config root on XXX swap on YYY dump on ZZZ), but I can't find any trace in our kernel or in current config file of NetBSD or OpenBSD (time to resurrect the option ?). In your case, this kind of hardwired configuration knob would certainly be handy (I've looked at the code in dumpon.c : the dump device is selected via an IOCTL and not a loader-tunable sysctl flag : too bad). TfH
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