Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:32:01 +0200 From: "Yehonatan Yossef" <yoniy@mellanox.co.il> To: "Mel" <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Capturing dmesg upon system crash on 6.3 Message-ID: <6C2C79E72C305246B504CBA17B5500C9036415A4@mtlexch01.mtl.com> In-Reply-To: <200802251219.04372.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> > I'm facing a system reboot upon loading of the driver, and=20 > I could use=20 > > a tool for capturing dmesg upon system crash (such as netconsole on=20 > > Linux). >=20 > Your kernel isn't setup for driver development: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-ha > ndbook/kerneldebug.html > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kern > elconfig.html >=20 > Basically, your system is rebooting cause the kernel panics=20 > and you're not setup for crash dumps, or anything that could=20 > help you diagnose the panic. > -- > Mel I've setup the dumpdev/dumpdir and I get a vmcore image upon a crash. I don't really understand how to use kgdb in order to read it but more than that - I don't need that much of data. I only want the dmesg report at the moment, see at what point my driver went crazy. Is it possible? Yony
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?6C2C79E72C305246B504CBA17B5500C9036415A4>