Subject: Re: Boot blocks croak on kernels with full debug table
To: Craig Metz <cmetz@inner.net>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/22/1996 21:03:42
On Wed, 22 May 1996 18:24:33 -0400 
 Craig Metz <cmetz@inner.net> wrote:

 > 	BTW, is there a DDB command to get a kernel to dump core? As
 > far as I can tell, if DDB is enabled,  panic() enters DDB and you can
 > never get a core dump.

In most cases, you can just "c" (continue) ... otherwise, you could:

db> call dumpsys

That would produce a core dump...

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