The crash(1M) command provides a great deal of information that is useful when implementing drivers or doing other kernel development, and requires a good understanding of UNIX system internals to take full advantage of the information provided. The notes in this section enable you to get some basic information about a system panic from the crash output.
To run crash on the saved memory dump,
issue a command similar to the following.
This command assumes that the kernel being examined is
the default in /stand/unix and that dump image was
saved to /dumpfile when the system was rebooted:
/etc/crash -d /dumpfile -w /tmp/crash.out
The -w option saves the crash output to a file for examination.
This example uses a different kernel than the default (or one that
was copied from another system):
/etc/crash -d /dumpfile -n /unix.test -w /tmp/crash.out