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Date:      Sat, 17 Oct 1998 21:12:17 -0500
From:      Tom Jackson <toj@gorilla.net>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: panic
Message-ID:  <19981017211217.A12670@TOJ.org>
In-Reply-To: <199810180131.SAA08718@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Sat, Oct 17, 1998 at 06:31:47PM -0700
References:  <19981017202305.A12163@TOJ.org> <199810180131.SAA08718@dingo.cdrom.com>

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On Sat, Oct 17, 1998 at 06:31:47PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote:
> > nm tells me module_register (dugh) not module_init.
> > 
> > For me, no amount of dumps on anything will produce a crash dump. On my
> > laptop it just says bad dump device and on my server (which is not crashing
> > now) I get a count down but no crash modules are produced.
> 
> You can't write a dump to disk until you've found a disk to write to.  
> Module_register is way too early.  
> 
> > btw, these are 100% elf and I don't think the panic is a smp problem.
> 
> If you're running an ELF kernel, make sure your /boot/loader is up to 
> date.
> 

There are up to date, in fact my observation is that they are routinely
updated in 'make world', at least mine are. This seems to be involved 
with massive changes made by Peter Wemm on 10/15 involving kern_module.c
and friends.
-- 
Tom

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