From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Mar 28 22:30: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B364937B419 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 22:30:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2T6U2u20681; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 22:30:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 22:30:02 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200203290630.g2T6U2u20681@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: trhodes@FreeBSD.ORG (Tom Rhodes) Subject: Re: docs/36465: [PATCH] dumpon(8) Reply-To: trhodes@FreeBSD.ORG (Tom Rhodes) Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR docs/36465; it has been noted by GNATS. From: trhodes@FreeBSD.ORG (Tom Rhodes) To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Cc: Subject: Re: docs/36465: [PATCH] dumpon(8) Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 22:25:45 -0800 (PST) --- dumpon.8.old Fri Mar 29 01:21:52 2002 +++ dumpon.8 Fri Mar 29 01:22:00 2002 @@ -96,8 +96,11 @@ .Pp Since .Nm -can only be called after the system enters single-user mode, -it can not be used to create dumps for system panics during +cannot be used during kernel initialization, the +.Va dumpdev +variable of +.Xr loader 8 +must be used to enable dumps for system panics during kernel initialization. In such cases use .Va dumpdev Review the above, sorry about that, my new mailer program is odd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message