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Back out the new advice introduced in the previous commit, which at

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least one reviewer is now unhappy with, since it contains incomplete
and misleading advice that is not easy to correct.

The net effect of this commit and the previous commit is to simply
remove all discussion of setting dumpdev to catch crash dumps
prior to entering user mode.
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Sheldon Hearn 2000-03-28 15:54:32 +00:00
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@ -85,27 +85,6 @@ or to
.Ar special_file
is the text string:
.Dq Li off .
.Pp
The
.Xr ddb 4
interactive kernel debugger may be used
to specify a device for crash dumps
that occur in single-user mode.
For example,
the following command at the
.Xr ddb 4
prompt would return the device number for the swap device
.Pa /dev/ad0s1b :
.Bd -literal -offset ident
show disk/ad0s1b
.Ed
.Pp
The value returned could then be written to the
.Va dumpdev
kernel variable as follows:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
write dumpdev 0xc0b65800
.Ed
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr sysctl 3 ,
.Xr fstab 5 ,