Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 02:19:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Nick Hibma <hibma@skylink.it>, "Steven G. Kargl" <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: is dumpon/savecore broken? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907220215490.33957-100000@freja.webgiro.com> In-Reply-To: <199907202030.NAA06800@apollo.backplane.com>
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On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :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 remember doing this once or twice from DDB - writing appropriate values to _dumpdev, as they appeared on running system. Of course, the system can be in such state that this could equally well do more harm than good... :-/ Andrzej Bialecki // <abial@webgiro.com> 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-current" in the body of the message
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