Re: Kernel crash before dumpon

2008-11-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
Frank Solensky wrote: I'm trying to get a dump off a machine with a 7.1-beta2 kernel that's been crashing during the boot process, following the instructions on http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html#KERNELDEBUG-OBTAIN I've recompiled the kernel with -g but no

Kernel crash before dumpon

2008-11-25 Thread Frank Solensky
I'm trying to get a dump off a machine with a 7.1-beta2 kernel that's been crashing during the boot process, following the instructions on http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html#KERNELDEBUG-OBTAIN I've recompiled the kernel with -g but no vmcore file appears so

Re: Kernel crash before dumpon

2008-11-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
The page includes the following suggestion on how I might be able to proceed: Alternatively, the dump device can be hard-coded via the dump clause in the config(5) line of a kernel configuration file. This approach is deprecated and should be used only if a kernel is

Re: Kernel crash before dumpon

2008-11-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Frank Solensky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wow. Frank Solensky. Long time no see. I'm trying to get a dump off a machine with a 7.1-beta2 kernel that's been crashing during the boot process, following the instructions on