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Date:      Wed, 3 May 2000 14:54:46 +0530 (IST)
From:      "G.B.Naidu" <gbnaidu@sasi.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@Freebsd.ORG
Subject:   how do I save crash dumps...
Message-ID:  <Pine.GHP.4.10.10005031447140.23210-100000@hpd14.sasi.com>

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Hi,

While booting on certain kernel, my system panics. So I enabled crash
dumps. I went through the mailing list archives and did as follows to
enable saving crash dumps:

In /etc/rc.conf file, I have added 2 lines like these:

dumpdev="/dev/wd0s1b"
savecore=YES

I made sure that dumping is enabled using the command: sysctl kern.dumpdev
Thre output of the command is as follows:

kern.dumpdev: { major = 0, minor = 131073 }

When it paniced, it dumped something and said it succeded.

But when I booted on a different good kernel, there is a line on the
screen saying: checking for coredump ... savecore: no core dump

Am I missing something here? At panic, it dumped successfully. But why it
says no core dump found? Can somebody please explain this.

Please cc to gbnaidu@sasi.com    as I am not subsribed to this list.

thanks for the help
--gb







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