From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 28 06:52:12 2004 Return-Path: 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 EC40B16A4CE for ; Mon, 28 Jun 2004 06:52:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smart.eusc.inter.net (smart.eusc.inter.net [213.73.101.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B110443D1F for ; Mon, 28 Jun 2004 06:52:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ofischer@snafu.de) Received: from pd951714f.dip.t-dialin.net ([217.81.113.79] helo=snafu.de) by smart.eusc.inter.net with asmtp (Exim 3.36 #4) id 1Bepzv-0002FC-00 for current@freebsd.org; Mon, 28 Jun 2004 08:52:11 +0200 Message-ID: <40DFDC44.6090101@snafu.de> Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 08:52:20 +0000 From: "Oliver B. Fischer" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040616 X-Accept-Language: de-de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: current@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 12:12:27 +0000 Subject: Obtaining a kernel dump is not possible X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 06:52:13 -0000 Hello, my ThinkPad gets a kernel panic if I boot a kernel with atapicam enabled. So I try to obtain a crash dump to get a backtrace. Unfortunately it seems so, that the kernel crashs quit early. Although I put dumpdev=/dev/ad0s1b in my loader.conf, I can't call doadump without getting the message: "Partition too small. Dump failed." I think, that the dumpdev hasn't been assigned at that specific moment to the dumperinfo. Or is there another way to specify the dumpdev? How can I all the same obtain a crash dump? Regards, Oliver Fischer