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"Andrew L. Neporada" <andr@dgap.mipt.ru> writes:

> How can I force FreeBSD 4.8 to panic? I just want to be sure that I can 
> get a core dump/backtrace in this situation. 

Usually with ddb(4); see the FAQ
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/advanced.html#KERNEL-PANIC-TROUBLESHOOTING