Dumping prior to dumpon(8) (Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/dumpon dumpon.8)

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 12:15:53AM +0000, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> kris        2006-02-27 00:15:53 UTC
> 
>   FreeBSD src repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sbin/dumpon          dumpon.8 
>   Log:
>   It has not been possible to specify a dumpdev in loader.conf since 2002,
>   so don't raise false hopes here.

It would be great if it could be fixed so that dumps could be obtained
from panics earlier in the boot sequence than dumpon(8) is run - does
anyone know why this facility was lost?

Kris
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