On Mon, 23 Sep 1996 09:57:01 -0700 
 templin@nas.nasa.gov (Fred L. Templin) wrote:

 > 	1. Is it even possible to save a crash dump image on the
 > 	   NetBSD Alpha port? If so, is it possible to analyze the
 > 	   dump using some sort of debugging tool?

To my knowledge, NetBSD/alpha doesn't yet support crash dumps.  I'm
not exactly sure why ... Chris will have to answer that :-)

 > 	2. Is there a way to disable auto-rebooting, so that I can
 > 	   at least glean the panic string when the system goes
 > 	   belly-up?

In the PROM, you could set the "auto action" (I forget the exact
PROM environment variable) to "halt" ... that should keep it from
doing an automatic reboot...

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