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Date:      Tue, 8 Jun 2004 13:48:46 +0200
From:      "Willem Jan Withagen" <wjw@withagen.nl>
To:        "Willem Jan Withagen" <wjw@withagen.nl>, <freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Getting kernel dumps
Message-ID:  <0bf701c44d4e$8ed79f20$471b3dd4@dual>
References:  <0bb701c44d44$5ba32570$471b3dd4@dual>

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> After fixing user core dumps > 2 Gb, I'm now in search of getting my
kerneldumps
> to work.....
>
> opteron# uname -a
> FreeBSD opteron.digiware.nl 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #17: Fri Jun  4
15:2
> 9:43 CEST 2004
wjw@opteron.digiware.nl:/usr/obj/home2/src/sys/OPTERON.amd64
>  amd64
>
>
> This is what I do:
> ----------------
>     ctrl-alt-esc
>
> db> call doadump
> Dumping 2046 MB
>
> Dump failed. Partition too small.
> 0x23
> ----------------
>
> Which is sort of bogus since the swappartition is "only" 5GB and there's only
> 2 GB of memory in the box.

Pilot error in this one.....

dumpon /dev/ad0s2b was my friend

I'll send a PR to take this as aspecific example so other do not get burnt as
well.

--WjW



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