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| author | smh <smh@FreeBSD.org> | 2015-11-25 08:58:07 +0000 |
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| committer | smh <smh@FreeBSD.org> | 2015-11-25 08:58:07 +0000 |
| commit | 425eeff252fdc30a775caad224498826200d9a49 (patch) | |
| tree | 3532dcea22c2c20c780aa293c8e98053d2d24bf2 /sys/boot | |
| parent | c5c4903605a6fccc75b03082ba4a98a3c0c50b5e (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-425eeff252fdc30a775caad224498826200d9a49.zip FreeBSD-src-425eeff252fdc30a775caad224498826200d9a49.tar.gz | |
MFC r291012:
Document loader(8) dumpdev option
Sponsored by: Multiplay
Diffstat (limited to 'sys/boot')
| -rw-r--r-- | sys/boot/common/loader.8 | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sys/boot/common/loader.8 b/sys/boot/common/loader.8 index d931ef4..a8f5b2c 100644 --- a/sys/boot/common/loader.8 +++ b/sys/boot/common/loader.8 @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd July 25, 2015 +.Dd November 18, 2015 .Dt LOADER 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -471,6 +471,14 @@ userland output (e.g.\& from .It Va currdev Selects the default device. Syntax for devices is odd. +.It Va dumpdev +Sets the device for kernel dumps. +This can be used to ensure that a device is configured before the corresponding +.Va dumpdev +directive from +.Xr rc.conf 5 +has been processed, allowing kernel panics that happen during the early stages +of boot to be captured. .It Va init_chroot If set to a valid directory in the root file system, it causes .Xr init 8 |
