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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

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