Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 13:03:59 -0700 From: "Brian O'Shea" <boshea@ricochet.net> To: Marco Molteni <molter@sofia.csl.sri.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel panics at boot, how to specify dump device? Message-ID: <20000511130359.Y337@beastie.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20000511122038.A99408@sofia.csl.sri.com>; from Marco Molteni on Thu, May 11, 2000 at 12:20:38PM -0700 References: <20000511122038.A99408@sofia.csl.sri.com>
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On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 12:20:38PM -0700, Marco Molteni wrote: > > I have a 4-STABLE kernel that panics at boot. How do I force the kernel > to core dump? > > I know that the handbook says to build a debug kernel and to set the > dump device via (dumpon + /etc/rc.conf) but in this case the kernel > panics during booting. The handbook says that, if the kernel panics at > boot, one can specify the dump device in the kernel configuration file, > with the "config kernel" line. I tried something like > > config kernel dump on /dev/wd0s3b From the LINT kernel config file: config kernel root on wd0 dumps on wd0 Maybe you forgot the 's' in "dumps"? I have never tried this so I can't say for sure. Just noticed this in your post. -brian -- Brian O'Shea boshea@ricochet.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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