From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 21 17:35:11 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 0E17814C0F for ; Wed, 21 Jul 1999 17:35:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@webgiro.com) Received: by freja.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 5BEBC1912; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 02:33:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freja.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B08649FC; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 02:33:37 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 02:33:35 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: "Matthew D. Fuller" Cc: Matthew Dillon , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: is dumpon/savecore broken? In-Reply-To: <19990721193036.B12369@futuresouth.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 Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > 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 :( Then use remote GDB - it works miracles, I can tell you, it's just like debugging any other user space program. See the section in the handbook on that. 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