From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 2 15:59:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mailhub.psn.ie (mailhub.psn.ie [194.106.150.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 426E414D5E for ; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 15:59:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ad@psn.ie) Received: from vmunix.psn.ie ([194.106.150.252]) by mailhub.psn.ie with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #3) id 10TDkf-0001l6-00; Sat, 3 Apr 1999 00:53:29 +0100 Received: from localhost.psn.ie ([127.0.0.1] helo=localhost) by vmunix.psn.ie with esmtp (Exim 2.10 #1) id 10TDlc-00005U-00; Sat, 3 Apr 1999 00:54:28 +0100 Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 00:54:28 +0100 (IST) From: Andy Doran To: Greg Lehey Cc: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: Any reason not to enable panic dumps earlier? In-Reply-To: <19990403082954.N413@lemis.com> 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'm just looking at a panic I'm getting early on in the boot phase. I > can't get a dump because no dump device is specified. Does anybody > see a reason why it shouldn't be done at the same time that swap is > mounted? Not that I'm a FreeBSD developer, but no I don't see a reason. You can do this in the 'config' statement in kernel configuration files anyway. 'dumps on' I believe. BTW Greg, I'll patch rawio tonight. The disklabel stuff is different for NetBSD, although I don't know how different in userland. Andy. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message