On Thursday 04 March 2004 7:37 pm, you wrote: > You need to setup your machine to capture the appropriate data after > the panic. There's general information about how to do that in a > series of articles here: > > http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/03/21/Big_Scary_Daemons.html > http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/04/Big_Scary_Daemons.html
This is great stuff: I'm compiling a debugging kernel as I type > However, you're seeing panics in the boot sequence: if that's actually > early on during booting, the system won't have initialised the disks > systems, so it can't record a crashdump. It's before I can log in, but really at the end of the whole process: the disks have already been checked and so on, so I reckon I stand a good chance of getting a dump. > but unless you're pretty much up-to-speed with kernel development, > you're probably not going to be able to extract much useful > information that way. Not me! But I know someone who knows what all this stuff means (ie the -current@ list) Thanks very much, Ben _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
