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Date:      Fri, 7 Aug 2009 19:57:38 +0200
From:      Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Cc:        cronfy <cronfy@sprinthost.ru>
Subject:   Re: Was system rebooted by power fail or by kernel panic?
Message-ID:  <200908071957.39199.max@love2party.net>
In-Reply-To: <4A7C6229.2040600@sprinthost.ru>
References:  <4A7C6229.2040600@sprinthost.ru>

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On Friday 07 August 2009 19:19:37 cronfy wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Is there a way to find out was system rebooted by power fail or by
> kernel panic?
>
> The problem is that there is no free space on devices to store kernel
> core dump (swap is smaller than physical memory, no more dump devices
> exist). Will FreeBSD report about panic somehow if it cannot create core
> dump?

You can try textdumps: 
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=textdump&manpath=FreeBSD+8-current

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