From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 20 13:36:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (troutmask.apl.washington.edu [128.95.76.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09805153CD for ; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 13:36:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: (from kargl@localhost) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id NAA04840; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 13:40:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kargl) From: "Steven G. Kargl" Message-Id: <199907202040.NAA04840@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: is dumpon/savecore broken? In-Reply-To: <199907202030.NAA06800@apollo.backplane.com> from Matthew Dillon at "Jul 20, 1999 01:30:44 pm" To: dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 13:40:52 -0700 (PDT) Cc: hibma@skylink.it (Nick Hibma), phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Matthew Dillon: > > :And how do you create dumps from a kernel that hasn't finished booting > :(not gotten to the stage of reading rc.conf)? 'dumps on' in kernel > :config does not seem to do the job. > : > :Nick > > You can do it manually from /etc/rc. If it doesn't even get that far, > you used to be able to specify it in the kernel config but I do not know > if that is possible any more. > I think that is Nick's point. You can no longer specify a dump device in the kernel config file. troutmask:root[203] config TROUTMASK config: line 41: root/dump/swap specifications obsolete On the other hand, you should have kernel.old or a fixit floppy available. -- Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message