Re: capturing an early kernel dump

2001-02-02 Thread Lars Eggert
Peter Wemm wrote: > > Lars Eggert wrote: > > I'm playing with the networking code; by that time, the disks should have > > been probed. > > Hmm.. driver or stack? If it is a driver, then why not just kldload it? Stack. > If you do a boot -v, you should see something like: 'creating disk ad0'

Re: capturing an early kernel dump

2001-02-02 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Peter Wemm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010201 23:40] wrote: > Lars Eggert wrote: > > > [Repost from last week, no answer then.] > > > > How do I capture an early kernel dump (before rc executes and sets > > dumpdev)? > > > > The dump partition used to be an option in the kernel config file, but that

Re: capturing an early kernel dump

2001-02-02 Thread Peter Wemm
Lars Eggert wrote: > > Lars Eggert wrote: > >> How do I capture an early kernel dump (before rc executes and sets > >> dumpdev)? > > > > How early? We could dump if you were prepared to hardwire in the minor and > > major device numbers to get to the devsw[] vectors and manually set the > > offs

Re: capturing an early kernel dump

2001-02-01 Thread Lars Eggert
> Lars Eggert wrote: >> How do I capture an early kernel dump (before rc executes and sets >> dumpdev)? > > How early? We could dump if you were prepared to hardwire in the minor and > major device numbers to get to the devsw[] vectors and manually set the > offsets. Not that early :-) I'm pla

Re: capturing an early kernel dump

2001-02-01 Thread Peter Wemm
Lars Eggert wrote: > [Repost from last week, no answer then.] > > How do I capture an early kernel dump (before rc executes and sets > dumpdev)? > > The dump partition used to be an option in the kernel config file, but that > seems to have changed in 3.X or 4.X. > > Thanks, > Lars How early?

capturing an early kernel dump

2001-02-01 Thread Lars Eggert
[Repost from last week, no answer then.] How do I capture an early kernel dump (before rc executes and sets dumpdev)? The dump partition used to be an option in the kernel config file, but that seems to have changed in 3.X or 4.X. Thanks, Lars -- Lars Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

capturing an early kernel dump

2001-01-26 Thread Lars Eggert
How do I capture an early kernel dump (before rc executes and sets dumpdev)? The dump partition used to be an option in the kernel config file, but that seems to have changed in 3.X or 4.X. Thanks, Lars -- Lars Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Information Sciences Institute http://www