From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 21 0:19:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mrelay.jrc.it (mrelay.jrc.it [139.191.1.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4BF014FBD for ; Wed, 21 Jul 1999 00:19:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick.hibma@jrc.it) Received: from elect8 (elect8.jrc.it [139.191.71.152]) by mrelay.jrc.it (LMC5692) with SMTP id JAA15389 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 1999 09:19:02 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 09:19:00 +0200 (MET DST) From: Nick Hibma X-Sender: n_hibma@elect8 Reply-To: Nick Hibma To: FreeBSD hackers mailing list Subject: Re: is dumpon/savecore broken? (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I think that is Nick's point. You can no longer specify a dump > device in the kernel config file. > > troutmask:root[203] config TROUTMASK > config: line 41: root/dump/swap specifications obsolete > > On the other hand, you should have kernel.old or a fixit > floppy available. The problem is not having a kernel lying around, I have about five. I would like to crash the system before the filesystems get mounted read/write. /usr you can mount read only and you can put the important directories on NFS, but the root and /var are still at jeopardy. Writing the USB Zip driver is a bit of a pain this way. Nick -- ISIS/STA, T.P.270, Joint Research Centre, 21020 Ispra, Italy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message