Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 07:37:51 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen) Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: !!! dumpon doesnt't work !!! Message-ID: <199507250537.HAA07860@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <9507241125.AA06490@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de> from "Thomas Graichen" at Jul 24, 95 01:25:32 pm
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As Thomas Graichen wrote: > > ... i try to get a kernel core dump to give you more information about another > problem i mailed to bugs@... - but i'm unable to get the system dump core - i > tried: > > dumpon /dev/wd0b > > dumpon /dev/wd0s4b > > in rc before savecore - i also tried > > config kernel root on wd0 dumps on wd0 Both ways are supposed to get you a core dump (the dumpon variant will only work after you've also swapon'ed that partition, from my experience). If your system is stalling, this is a problem somewhere in the disk driver or related code, not with the dumpon command. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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