Capturing dmesg upon system crash on 6.3

Mel fbsd.questions at rachie.is-a-geek.net
Mon Feb 25 11:19:07 UTC 2008


On Monday 25 February 2008 10:28:12 Yehonatan Yossef wrote:

> I'm facing a system reboot upon loading of the driver, and I could use a
> tool for capturing dmesg upon system crash (such as netconsole on
> Linux).

Your kernel isn't setup for driver development:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html

Basically, your system is rebooting cause the kernel panics and you're not 
setup for crash dumps, or anything that could help you diagnose the panic.
-- 
Mel


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