From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 3 2:14:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sasi.com (sasi.com [164.164.56.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4607B37B654 for ; Wed, 3 May 2000 02:14:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gbnaidu@sasi.com) Received: from samar (sasi.com [164.164.56.2]) by sasi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA15408 for ; Wed, 3 May 2000 14:43:30 +0530 (IST) Received: from hpd14.sasi.com ([10.0.16.14]) by sasi.com; Wed, 03 May 2000 14:43:30 +0000 (IST) Received: from localhost (gbnaidu@localhost) by hpd14.sasi.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA03847 for ; Wed, 3 May 2000 14:54:46 +0530 (IST) Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 14:54:46 +0530 (IST) From: "G.B.Naidu" To: freebsd-questions@Freebsd.ORG Subject: how do I save crash dumps... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, While booting on certain kernel, my system panics. So I enabled crash dumps. I went through the mailing list archives and did as follows to enable saving crash dumps: In /etc/rc.conf file, I have added 2 lines like these: dumpdev="/dev/wd0s1b" savecore=YES I made sure that dumping is enabled using the command: sysctl kern.dumpdev Thre output of the command is as follows: kern.dumpdev: { major = 0, minor = 131073 } When it paniced, it dumped something and said it succeded. But when I booted on a different good kernel, there is a line on the screen saying: checking for coredump ... savecore: no core dump Am I missing something here? At panic, it dumped successfully. But why it says no core dump found? Can somebody please explain this. Please cc to gbnaidu@sasi.com as I am not subsribed to this list. thanks for the help --gb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message