From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 21 17:21:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freja.webgiro.com (freja.webgiro.com [212.209.29.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6979514D8B for ; Wed, 21 Jul 1999 17:21:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@webgiro.com) Received: by freja.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 584FE1912; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 02:19:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freja.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 553B449FC; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 02:19:39 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 02:19:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Nick Hibma , "Steven G. Kargl" , Poul-Henning Kamp , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: is dumpon/savecore broken? In-Reply-To: <199907202030.NAA06800@apollo.backplane.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 // 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