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Date:      Thu, 01 Feb 2001 23:45:46 -0800
From:      Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU>
Cc:        <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: capturing an early kernel dump 
Message-ID:  <B69FA5AA.A79C%larse@isi.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200102020739.f127dUW23005@mobile.wemm.org>

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> Lars Eggert wrote:
>> How do I capture an early kernel dump (before rc executes and sets
>> dumpdev)?
> 
> How early?  We could dump if you were prepared to hardwire in the minor and
> major device numbers to get to the devsw[] vectors and manually set the
> offsets.

Not that early :-)

I'm playing with the networking code; by that time, the disks should have
been probed.

Is there an "easy way" to configure a dump device after the disks are up?

Thanks,
Lars
-- 
Lars Eggert <larse@isi.edu>                   Information Sciences Institute
http://www.isi.edu/larse/                  University of Southern California



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