From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Apr 1 17:40: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B46E37B405 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 17:40:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g321e3r15356; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 17:40:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 17:40:03 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200204020140.g321e3r15356@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Subject: Re: docs/36465: [PATCH] dumpon(8) Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR docs/36465; it has been noted by GNATS. From: To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Cc: Subject: Re: docs/36465: [PATCH] dumpon(8) Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 17:39:15 -0800 (PST) Gary, this is a new diff that should work for our current situation. What do you think? -- Tom (darklogik) Rhodes --- dumpon.8.old Mon Apr 1 20:29:36 2002 +++ dumpon.8 Mon Apr 1 20:43:27 2002 @@ -96,14 +96,12 @@ .Pp Since .Nm -can only be called after the system enters single-user mode, -it can not be used to create dumps for system panics during -kernel initialization. -In such cases use +cannot be used during kernel initialization, the .Va dumpdev -tunable provided by +variable of .Xr loader 8 -instead. +must be used to enable dumps for system panics which occur +during kernel initialization. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr sysctl 3 , .Xr fstab 5 , To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message