Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 09:50:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Hiten Pandya <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>, Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to dump a 4gig system on panic ? Message-ID: <20020517165054.82390.qmail@web21109.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20020517134254.W41731-100000@mail1.hub.org>
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--- "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> wrote: > Well, downloaded the files (a .tar.gz would be nice? *grin*) and the > client built perfectly, and kldload worked fine ... is there some way > someone can suggest of 'simulating a crash'? Some way to test to make > sure that it is working as expected? I have a 4.6-PRE machine on my desk > that I'd like to test with before I try it on "the real thing", if at all > possible? If you have DDB in your kernel, then you can press Ctrl+Alt+Esc; by doing that, you will enter into the kernel debugger (DDB). At the prompt displayed, type 'panic' without the quotes and then should hopefully generate a dump. Regards. -- Hiten __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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