From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 11 16:13:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA02484 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 16:13:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rgate.ricochet.net (rgate.ricochet.net [204.179.143.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA02476 for ; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 16:12:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from enkhyl@scient.com) Received: from mg136-056.ricochet.net (mg136-056.ricochet.net [204.179.136.56]) by rgate.ricochet.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA25652; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 18:12:29 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 16:11:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Christopher Nielsen X-Sender: enkhyl@ender.sf.scient.com Reply-To: enkhyl@hayseed.net To: Alfred cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bitten 3 times already. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Alfred wrote: > Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 18:47:25 -0400 (EDT) > From: Alfred > 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 -- Christopher Nielsen Scient: The Art and Science of Electronic Business cnielsen@scient.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message