How to grab a dump from panic on boot in FreeBSD Current?

[Ivailo Bonev]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thierry Herbelot" <thierry.herbelot at free.fr>
To: <freebsd-current at freebsd.org>
Cc: "Ivailo Bonev" <ibb_orac at mbox.contact.bg>
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 12:39 AM
Subject: Re: How to grab a dump from panic on boot in FreeBSD Current?


> Le Thursday 18 June 2009, Ivailo Bonev a écrit :
>> I want to send a panic that is reproducible when boot my laptop with ndis
>> module for Broadcom wireless card, but don't know how to send screen 
>> output
>> to a file? Can anyone help me?
>
> you may want to use a serial console (if your notebook is old enough to 
> still
> have a serial port ...), by adding the following line to /boot/loader.conf 
> :
> -%------------------------
> console="comconsole"
> -%------------------------
>
> TfH
>
> PS : if there is no serial port, you may want to use a firewire port (or 
> else,
> use a camera to take a picture of the screen, when you have the panic
> message)
>>
>>
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I don't have a serial port, ant don't have firewire. I had impression that 
it is possible with newest "textdump"?