Panic on boot. How do I get a kernel dump.

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 08:31:16AM -0700, Tom Cumming wrote:
> >> > > set dumpdev="/dev/ad0s2b"
> >
> >To clarify, there is no way to set the dumpdev in the loader, by
> >tunable or any other method :)
> 
> 
> Thanks all, it seems finally people are understanding my question. I've
> already tried to, "set dumpdev = ad1s1b" in the loader and that didn't work.
> I didn't use the, "/dev/" path because rootdev didn't have it, and I believe
> the syntax would be the same.
> 
> One possibility is to hard code dumpdev in the kernel, then boot that
> kernel.

I don't know many different ways I can say "there is no way to do it".
Maybe a different font will help:

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HTH :)

Kris