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Date:      Sun, 20 May 2001 10:28:48 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Marc Silver <marcs@draenor.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Taking processor dumps (was: Did FreeBSD crash or am I missing something?)
Message-ID:  <20010520102848.H75919@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010515075718.H351@draenor.org>; from marcs@draenor.org on Tue, May 15, 2001 at 07:57:18AM %2B0200
References:  <20010514204231.G351@draenor.org> <20010515110341.D59553@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010515075718.H351@draenor.org>

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On Tuesday, 15 May 2001 at  7:57:18 +0200, Marc Silver wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:03:41AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
>> About the only way you can find out why a system like this resets is
>> to enable dumping and take a look at the dump.
>
> Forgive my ignorance Greg, but how do I enable crash dumps?  Could
> you provide me more information, or a URL where I could find out
> more?  All I could find in the handbook was information on how to
> get a crash dump for a kernel that doesn't boot up correctly, but
> this isn't the problem here, as the machine was up for 14 days prior
> to this reboot.

Take a look at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/kerneldebug.html.  That
should tell you what you need, though it's a little cryptic.

Greg
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