Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 13:18:03 +0300 From: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: thierry@herbelot.com Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to set dumpdev Message-ID: <E1DR65r-0005l2-Ow@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il> In-Reply-To: Message from Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com> <200504281209.46273.thierry@herbelot.com>
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> > On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Danny Braniss wrote: > > > i can't use dumpon, since the kernel is panicking on boot, so > > Hello, > > There used to be a "dump" directive in the kernel config file (config root on > XXX swap on YYY dump on ZZZ), but I can't find any trace in our kernel or in > current config file of NetBSD or OpenBSD (time to resurrect the option ?). > > In your case, this kind of hardwired configuration knob would certainly be > handy (I've looked at the code in dumpon.c : the dump device is selected via > an IOCTL and not a loader-tunable sysctl flag : too bad). > > TfH not so quick, i have many different machines sharing the same kernel, so a hardwire option is not good in general. but at the moment anything will do. danny
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