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On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Jaco H. van Tonder wrote:

> 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?)

Ouch. Yeah this is one of those times when you can't grab a dump.  You can
compile DDB in and at least poke around.

You do have a listing of the panic & boot messages up to the point of the
panic, yes? If not this would be a good time to learn about serial
console.

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