On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>
> :And how do you create dumps from a kernel that hasn't finished booting
> :(not gotten to the stage of reading rc.conf)? 'dumps on' in kernel
> :config does not seem to do the job.
> :
> :Nick
>
> You can do it manually from /etc/rc. If it doesn't even get that far,
> you used to be able to specify it in the kernel config but I do not know
> if that is possible any more.
I remember doing this once or twice from DDB - writing appropriate values
to _dumpdev, as they appeared on running system.
Of course, the system can be in such state that this could equally well
do more harm than good... :-/
Andrzej Bialecki
// <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com)
// -------------------------------------------------------------------
// ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org --------
// --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ----
To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
