From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 29 13:52:21 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 D7CA616A4CE for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 13:52:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lagavulin.lacave.net (212-100-178-134.adsl.easynet.be [212.100.178.134]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DD3B543D5C for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 13:52:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fred.letter@lacave.net) Received: (qmail 23334 invoked from network); 29 Jun 2004 13:52:14 -0000 Received: from 213-193-172-10.adsl.easynet.be (HELO ballantines) (213.193.172.10) by lagavulin.lacave.net with SMTP; 29 Jun 2004 13:52:14 -0000 Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:52:13 +0200 From: "F. Senault" X-Mailer: The Bat! (v2.11) Educational Organization: Secte de l'Elephant Fuschia X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <65054586.20040629155213@lacave.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <40DFDC44.6090101@snafu.de> References: <40DFDC44.6090101@snafu.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0/5.0 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on lagavulin.lacave.net X-Spam-Report: X-Virus-Scanner: F-prot v4.4.1 (engine 3.14.11) X-Virus-Definitions: SIGN.DEF (25 June 2004), SIGN2.DEF (25 June 2004), MACRO.DEF (28 June 2004) X-Virus-Flag: NO Subject: Re: Obtaining a kernel dump is not possible X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: "F. Senault" List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 13:52:22 -0000 Monday, June 28, 2004, 10:52:20 AM, you wrote: > 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." Is your swap partition big enough ? It has to be at least as big as your physical memory. Fred Who had to wait for a server with 3Gig of RAM to write its dump... -- Imagine a stegosaurus wearing rocket powered roller skates, & you'll get a fair idea of its elegance, stability & ease of crash recovery. (Lionel Lauer in the SDM)