On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Jim Mercer wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 10:14:47AM +0200, Nadav Eiron wrote:
> > I didn't add kernel debugger, just kernel dumps. All the time it takes on
> > a reboot is the time your disks take to copy RAM to swapspace. Even with
> > your RAM size it should be less than a minute.
>
> so, how does one do this?
>
> /etc/rc.conf:
> dumpdev="/dev/da0s2b" # this is the swap partition
>
> yes?
Yes. You should also have your kernel compiled with debugging information
(and then installed stripped), so that you can make sense out of the dump
if you get one. See:
http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/kerneldebug.html
>
> > The kernel is unchanged, so there's nothing that could really fix the
> > problem. It did go away though (at least for now) :-)
>
> well, fingers crossed, i'll give it a whirl.
Good luck (though I doubt it'll change anything).
>
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