On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 02:19:37AM +0200, a little birdie told me
> that Andrzej Bialecki remarked
> > On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> > >
> > > You can do it manually from /etc/rc. If it doesn't even get that far,
> > > you used to be able to specify it in the kernel config but I do not know
> > > if that is possible any more.
> >
> > I remember doing this once or twice from DDB - writing appropriate values
> > to _dumpdev, as they appeared on running system.
> >
> > Of course, the system can be in such state that this could equally well
> > do more harm than good... :-/
>
> But lemme guess...
> This won't work with a system that panics before it gets around to
> probing the harddrives...
>
> This is one of my present problems :(
Then use remote GDB - it works miracles, I can tell you, it's just like
debugging any other user space program. See the section in the handbook on
that.
Andrzej Bialecki
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