Re: Dump already in progress, bailing... (after halt on ServeRAID-6M via ips.ko)

[Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

:...
:> than ours), rather than the driver. You didn't at least see this panic
:> when you tried my devstat patch, how current was your source tree at that
:> time?
:This happened for the first time, but what worried me that it did not 
:stop and that keyboard was dead (of course, since usbd was dead!). I 
:used sources as of yesterday.
:...
:What I can do is hook up a null modem cable to machine to see any last 
:output via another machine. Do I need anything to configure this or is 
:it automatically? Machine has one serial port for such purposes.
:
:Toma¾

    Be sure to set that sysctl.  In fact, put it in your /etc/sysctl.conf
    file as well so you don't have to think about it:

	[ in the /etc/sysctl.conf file ]:
	debug.trace_on_panic=1

    If you setup a null-modem cable be sure you are not running a getty
    on the client machine, otherwise the target machine will likely not
    boot properly.

    Run tip or cu on the client:

	cu -s 9600 -l /dev/cuaa0

    Start booting the target.  The boot2 and /boot/loader should dual-display
    on both the serial console and the screen.

    From the serial console, interrupt the loader menu by hitting menu option
    6.  This drops you into a loader prompt.

    Boot the kernel with the -h option which tells it to use the serial 
    console for its console:

	[menu option 6]
	boot -h

    When the machine fails it should generate a trace to the serial console
    and you might even be able to type at the ddb> prompt.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>