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Subject: Re: savecore changed?
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Doug,

Sorry, my bad, there was no dump availible. I still dont know how I would
manage to get
a dump if the kernel panics while busy booting (It does not know about
dumpdev yet?)

Regards,
Jaco

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug White" <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To: "Jaco H. van Tonder" <freebsd-questions@premsoft.co.za>
Cc: <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Sent: 07/11/2003 3:06 AM
Subject: Re: savecore changed?


> On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Jaco H. van Tonder wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a -CURRENT kernel that panics the moment it starts booting, and I
> > have to use another kernel to boot properly (GENERIC). The problem is
that I
> > want to dump the core from the faulty kernel, and I see that savecore no
> > longer support a -N flag like in 4.X? How do I save the core in -CURRENT
> > from a different kernel? UPDATING does not mention any change in
savecore.
> > :(
>
> savecore won't recover the old kernel? Can't say I've ever had that
> problem. Can you show error messages?  -CURRENT savecore no longer grabs
> kernel.0, so it shouldn't matter what the running kernel is.
>
> --
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