From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 13 12: 2: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EABED37B401 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:02:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from postal3.es.net (postal3.es.net [198.128.3.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7236D43EC5 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:02:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net ([198.128.4.29]) by postal3.es.net (Postal Node 3) with ESMTP id MUA74016; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:02:03 -0800 Received: from ptavv (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Tachyon Server) with ESMTP id D66325D04; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:02:02 -0800 (PST) To: Nate Lawson Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Losing the battle with RC1 In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:22:10 PST." Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:02:02 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20021213200202.D66325D04@ptavv.es.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:22:10 -0800 (PST) > From: Nate Lawson > Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG > > On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > For the past few days I have been trying to get RC1 running on my old > > laptop (IBM ThinkPad 600E). The installation worked pretty well, but > > the system crashes frequently when acpi is running. > > > > I decided to get a dump to look at and added the following to my > > rc.conf: > > dumpdev="/dev/ad0s2b" > > dumpdir="/scratch" > > > > ad0s2 IS my swap partition. I don't think the /scratch directory is > > relevant as I never get to the savecore. > > ad0s2 needs to be as big as main memory or dumps may overwrite the next > partition. Nate, Actually, a bit bigger. But that doesn't matter as I made it 160 MB back when this system had 128 MB of RAM. It now has 192 MB. I feel terribly stupid at the moment. Excuse me while I re-partition. Thanks for pointing out the obvious! (Although I am confused by why it wiped the root partition which is BEFORE swap.) R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message