Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1997 22:46:09 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: gabor@acm.org, j@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Panic in probe, but no dump Message-ID: <199702081146.WAA09891@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>Right. In this case, you need the `dumps on' clause. > >Hey, btw., you can only dump into a configured and/or active swap >partition. Not true. You can dump on any large enough disk device (at least for sd and wd disks). A swap device is just normally used because its contents are disposable. So, you also need a `swap on' clause! > >j@uriah 693% fgrep kernel /sys/i386/conf/URIAH >config kernel root on sd0 swap on sd0 and sd1 dumps on sd1 Erm, `swap' is a no-op here. Swap devices haven't been put in swapkernel.c for a year ortwo . The only remaining functionality of `swap' in the config line is to enable `swapgeneric', and the only remaining functionality of `swapgeneric' is to enable kernel support for the -a (ask for root device) boot flag. Bruce
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