From owner-freebsd-current Thu May 9 13:52:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA17333 for current-outgoing; Thu, 9 May 1996 13:52:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA17310 for ; Thu, 9 May 1996 13:52:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA06189; Thu, 9 May 1996 22:50:58 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA20380; Thu, 9 May 1996 22:50:58 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id WAA20307; Thu, 9 May 1996 22:39:45 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199605092039.WAA20307@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Easy kernel config mistake To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 22:39:44 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199605091221.WAA23449@orion.devetir.qld.gov.au> from Stephen McKay at "May 9, 96 10:21:29 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL15 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Stephen McKay wrote: > My beleaguered -current system has been impossible to debug because I had > > config kernel root on wd0 swap on wd0 and vn0 dumps on wd0 > > in my config file. The 'dumps on wd0' section is very nearly as good as > having 'dumpon /dev/wd0b' run at startup, except that the resulting dump > starts at offset 0 in your swap area. See the ongoing discussion about my PR #kern/794 that happened on the `bugs' list today. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)