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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!bright.ecs.soton.ac.uk!robinson.ecs.soton.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: rsk@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Bob Kemp) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: [netbsd 0.9] Date: 14 Oct 1993 13:11:27 +0100 Organization: Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton Lines: 16 Message-ID: <29jflf$ikn@robinson.ecs.soton.ac.uk> References: <LUNDMAN.93Oct7122703@kauri.kauri.vuw.ac.nz> <CEKpys.Fs6@sztaki.hu> NNTP-Posting-Host: robinson.ecs.soton.ac.uk In <CEKpys.Fs6@sztaki.hu> pink@fsz.bme.hu (Szabolcs Szigeti (PinkPanther)) writes: >In article 93Oct7122703@kauri.kauri.vuw.ac.nz, lundman@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (L Lundman) writes: >>We also have 'savecore' in the 'rc' file but it's not doing anything. [...] >Basically the machine gets a trap while trying to make a dump, then reboots. >No vmcore is created. I vaguely remember seeing a comment in their BUGS file about it splatting on DOS partitions while dumping (in some circumstances). Perhaps this is why its disabled? Bob -- "Rose bushes have thorns; thorn bushes bear roses"