Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 16:11:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Christopher Nielsen <enkhyl@scient.com> To: Alfred <perlsta@hotjobs.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bitten 3 times already. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810111601510.316-100000@ender.sf.scient.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.00.9810111834060.20827-100000@fs3.ny.genx.net>
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On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Alfred wrote:
> Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 18:47:25 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Alfred <perlsta@hotjobs.com>
> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: bitten 3 times already.
>
>
> this is the third time freebsd has decided that wd0s1b wasn't "comfy"
> enough for a crashdump and ate a different partition while dumping.
>
> i even checked sysctl for the dumpdev and then checked against my /dev
> entry.
>
> this is on 2 seperate systems, i got yelled at for using DEVFS so i
> haven't been using it.
To provide another data point, I'm running -current (as of Friday) with
DEVFS (yes, I like to live dangerously ;-) on my Dell Latitude CPi laptop.
I've done a few crash dumps and they DTRT.
252 ender:~> sysctl kern.dumpdev
kern.dumpdev: { major = 0, minor = 262145 }
253 ender:~> uname -a
FreeBSD ender.sf.scient.com 3.0-BETA FreeBSD 3.0-BETA #1:
Fri Oct 9 23:41:16 PDT 1998
enkhyl@ender.sf.scient.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/ENDER-aout i386
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