Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:02:02 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Losing the battle with RC1 Message-ID: <20021213200202.D66325D04@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:22:10 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0212131116010.36866-100000@root.org>
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> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:22:10 -0800 (PST) > From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> > Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG > > On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > For the past few days I have been trying to get RC1 running on my old > > laptop (IBM ThinkPad 600E). The installation worked pretty well, but > > the system crashes frequently when acpi is running. > > > > I decided to get a dump to look at and added the following to my > > rc.conf: > > dumpdev="/dev/ad0s2b" > > dumpdir="/scratch" > > > > ad0s2 IS my swap partition. I don't think the /scratch directory is > > relevant as I never get to the savecore. > > ad0s2 needs to be as big as main memory or dumps may overwrite the next > partition. Nate, Actually, a bit bigger. But that doesn't matter as I made it 160 MB back when this system had 128 MB of RAM. It now has 192 MB. I feel terribly stupid at the moment. Excuse me while I re-partition. Thanks for pointing out the obvious! (Although I am confused by why it wiped the root partition which is BEFORE swap.) R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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