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From: dave@micropen (David F. Carlson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Where do crash dumps go on V/386 ?
Summary: don't worry, be happy
Message-ID: <600@micropen>
Date: 28 Dec 88 15:33:08 GMT
References: <183@wa3wbu.UUCP>
Organization: Micropen Dirent Writing Systems, Pittsford, NY
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In article <183@wa3wbu.UUCP>, john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) writes:
> 
> It came up telling me
> it was saving a "crash" or "image" file containing 1532 pages. Then
> waited for me to re-boot it.  Question:  where did it put this file ?
> I assume it dumped it somewhere to disk ?  I would like to remove it.
> 
> John Gayman, WA3WBU              |           UUCP: uunet!wa3wbu!john
> 1869 Valley Rd.                  |           ARPA: john@wa3wbu.uu.net 
> Marysville, PA 17053             |           Packet: WA3WBU @ AK3P 

The crash image is for debug purposes only, and even that I have not
made work very satisfactorily.  The kernel image is saved to the swap
partition on the hard disk.   When you reboot you have the option of
saving the image to tape for later analysis or you can simply boot
over the saved image.  Doing post-mortem on a crash image is not for
the weak of heart.  When you reboot, the swap partition is completely
re-initialized, so you needed worry about removing it:  its already
gone.



-- 
David F. Carlson, Micropen, Inc.
micropen!dave@ee.rochester.edu

"The faster I go, the behinder I get." --Lewis Carroll