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Date:      Tue, 28 Mar 2000 19:13:34 -0500 (EST)
From:      Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@bart.nl>
Cc:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DDB and dumping disk
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003281910140.25855-100000@green.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000328132626.F94986@lucifer.bart.nl>

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On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote:

> Your patch is a step in the right direction.
> 
> I am currently only trying to figure out why the DDB way doesn't trigger
> savecore to recognise the dump.

Did you try "call setdumpdev(0xf00)" with the proper show disk/ yet?
It's probably worth documenting the procedure even if it will be later
be replaced with a loader functionality... however, we should still
support the way it is now for people who want to get a dump but don't
have the ability to use loader(8) fully (Alpha?).

> -- 
> Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven          Network- and systemadministrator
> <asmodai@bart.nl>                      VIA NET.WORKS The Netherlands
> BSD: Technical excellence at its best  http://www.bart.nl
> How are the mighty fallen...

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 Brian Fundakowski Feldman           \  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!  /
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