From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 16 15:09:41 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7169C106564A for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:09:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from juergen.leising@gmx.de) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B4CA28FC0A for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:09:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from juergen.leising@gmx.de) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 16 Jul 2008 14:42:59 -0000 Received: from O1457.o.pppool.de (EHLO jl2.example.com) [89.51.20.87] by mail.gmx.net (mp055) with SMTP; 16 Jul 2008 16:42:59 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1267312 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19Z1WI1ru9ZVdIH1JxQhRbtD09jM6jPQsjmiSuCUj rgz/L19QkBX6+q Received: from jl2.example.com (jl2.example.com [192.168.1.2] (may be forged)) by jl2.example.com (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m6GEiKRR008307 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:44:20 +0200 Received: (from a0037@localhost) by jl2.example.com (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m6GEiKXp008306 for freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:44:20 +0200 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:44:20 +0200 From: Juergen Leising To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080716144420.GA8271@jl2.example.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-GnuPG-key: E130BD96 X-fingerprint: 4E4E 46A7 1F54 5F6A 4BBB 3CD4 DD29 EFE8 E130 BD96 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.93.1/7726/Wed Jul 16 15:28:37 2008 on jl2.example.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.6 Subject: Page fault in FreeBSD-7.0: How to set dumpdev when installing from bootonly cdrom X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:09:41 -0000 Hello, I fail in installing FreeBSD-7.0-RELEASE from the bootonly cdrom at an AMD 3000 Sempron (not a 64-bit processor): Page fault (trap 12). So I would like to produce a proper crashdump. How do I do this? On an already installed system I would set into /etc/rc.conf, whith ad0s4b being a swap partition: boot_verbose="YES" verbose_loading="YES" dumpdev="/dev/ad0s4b" dumpdir="/var/crash" But what if I install a fresh distribution from CD? I could remaster the bootonly cdrom. But which files do I have to change, then, to get a crashdump? Or would some kernel parameters be sufficient? BTW: The snapshot 200806-bootonly-cdrom also caused a page fault to me. Bye, bye Juergen