From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 28 16:13:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from 1Cust1.tnt3.waldorf.md.da.uu.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4867337B598; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 16:13:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 19:13:34 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman X-Sender: green@green.dyndns.org To: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Cc: Sheldon Hearn , Soren Schmidt , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DDB and dumping disk In-Reply-To: <20000328132626.F94986@lucifer.bart.nl> 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, 28 Mar 2000, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: > Your patch is a step in the right direction. > > I am currently only trying to figure out why the DDB way doesn't trigger > savecore to recognise the dump. Did you try "call setdumpdev(0xf00)" with the proper show disk/ yet? It's probably worth documenting the procedure even if it will be later be replaced with a loader functionality... however, we should still support the way it is now for people who want to get a dump but don't have the ability to use loader(8) fully (Alpha?). > -- > Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Network- and systemadministrator > VIA NET.WORKS The Netherlands > BSD: Technical excellence at its best http://www.bart.nl > How are the mighty fallen... -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / green@FreeBSD.org `------------------------------' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message