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> Will the kernel even provide a crashdump before it's finished booting
> (and certainly before the device to dump to has been configured in
> rc.conf) ?
>

Hi,

Check out /boot/loader.conf. There is an option to set the dumpdev.

Hope that helps.
Jaco