From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 21 17:32:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [198.78.58.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8AAE15556 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 1999 17:32:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fullermd@futuresouth.com) Received: (from fullermd@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA18447; Wed, 21 Jul 1999 19:30:37 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 19:30:37 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Andrzej Bialecki Cc: Matthew Dillon , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: is dumpon/savecore broken? Message-ID: <19990721193036.B12369@futuresouth.com> References: <199907202030.NAA06800@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: ; from Andrzej Bialecki on Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 02:19:37AM +0200 X-OS: FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 02:19:37AM +0200, a little birdie told me that Andrzej Bialecki remarked > On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > > 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... :-/ But lemme guess... This won't work with a system that panics before it gets around to probing the harddrives... This is one of my present problems :( -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Unix Systems Administrator | fullermd@futuresouth.com Specializing in FreeBSD | http://www.over-yonder.net/ FutureSouth Communications | ISPHelp ISP Consulting "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message