From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 28 23:33:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from lucifer.bart.nl (lucifer.bart.nl [194.158.168.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C5C737BCC3; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 23:33:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@lucifer.bart.nl) Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by lucifer.bart.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA07328; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 09:33:30 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 09:33:30 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven To: Brian Fundakowski Feldman Cc: Sheldon Hearn , current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: DDB and dumping disk Message-ID: <20000329093330.D7178@lucifer.bart.nl> References: <20000328132626.F94986@lucifer.bart.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from green@FreeBSD.org on Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 07:13:34PM -0500 Organisation: bART Internet Services B.V. Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -On [20000329 02:15], Brian Fundakowski Feldman (green@FreeBSD.org) wrote: >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? No. Will try ASAP. Thanks. >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?). Yes it is worth documenting, and I thought that Sheldon was already on the right way with his dumpon(8) patches. I prolly only need this extra step to solve the dump `problem' which is mostly caused due to my lack of system coredump knowledge. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Network- and systemadministrator VIA NET.WORKS The Netherlands BSD: Technical excellence at its best http://www.bart.nl That's your Destiny, the only chance, take it, take it in your hands... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message