From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 2 15:38:40 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36A0016A4CE for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2005 15:38:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from panther.cs.ucla.edu (Panther.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.128.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7CE943D39 for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2005 15:38:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from yanyu@CS.UCLA.EDU) Received: from localhost (yanyu@localhost)j22Fcbo22316 for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2005 07:38:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 07:38:37 -0800 (PST) From: Yan Yu To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: kernel core dump X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 15:38:40 -0000 Hi, I have a Q on generating kernel core dump when the system boots up.. my kernel crashes when it tries to mount the root device, "/", i.e., before it adding the swap device to the system (so there is no swap device when the system tries to generate core dump).. I am wondering is there a way to adjust this boot order, so that the system will add swap device before it mounting the root device, so hopefully the swap device is there when the kernel crashes.. Is yes, what change i should made to change that boot order? many thanks, yan