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Date:      Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:20:00 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kern/8671: sd0->da0 change breaks change of media and MSDOS removeable disks (Zip)
Message-ID:  <199811132120.NAA11472@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR kern/8671; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com>
To: bad@wireless.net (Bernie Doehner)
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: kern/8671: sd0->da0 change breaks change of media and MSDOS removeable disks (Zip)
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 14:09:34 -0700 (MST)

 Bernie Doehner wrote...
 > > I'm not sure if the gdb shipped in 3.0 understands both ELF and a.out.  If
 > > it does, you'd do something like:
 > > 
 > > cd /var/crash
 > > gdb -k kernel.0 vmcore.0
 > > (kgdb) where
 > > [ ... ]
 > 
 > Can't I read the crash dump AFTER rebooting with the same machine using
 > GDB instead of kgdb?  
 
 Oops, I thought that was clear.  You do use 'gdb -k' (a.k.a. "kgdb") after
 the machine has dumped its ram and rebooted.
 
 Just make sure you have a dump device configured, and savecore enabled.
 (in your rc.conf file)
 
 > P.S. Would yoou mind giving me a daytime/weekend phone number I could call
 > you or someone else to get help with this over the weekend?
 
 I'd rather not.  I will answer email this weekend, though.
 
 Ken
 -- 
 Kenneth Merry
 ken@plutotech.com

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