Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:56:57 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A trio of problems Message-ID: <A4550B38-1E3E-422B-A42B-0AB818EC37F0@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <gpnqmc$lt5$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <gpmnba$3na$1@ger.gmane.org> <ACB20835-A9F9-48BA-9614-6283936CA164@mac.com> <gpnqmc$lt5$1@ger.gmane.org>
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On Mar 17, 2009, at 2:31 AM, Ivan Voras wrote: > Marcel Moolenaar wrote: >> >> On Mar 16, 2009, at 4:28 PM, Ivan Voras wrote: >> >>> 2. I can't set a kernel coredump directory. The setup is not >>> unusual (no >>> gmirror, etc.) - simply partitions handled by GPART. The error is in >>> ioctl(DIOCSKERNELDUMP): Device not configured. The only thing that >>> comes >>> to my mind is that the swap device is 2 GB while the machine has 4 >>> GB >>> RAM but AFAIK minidumps should work? If I can get coredumps to >>> work I >>> could provide more information on the first problem. >> >> What's the partition type of the partition you're trying to dump >> to? > > It's ad8s2b from our earlier conversation. > > 2. Name: ad8s2b > Mediasize: 2147483648 (2.0G) > Sectorsize: 512 > Mode: r1w1e0 > rawtype: 7 > length: 2147483648 > offset: 19327352832 > type: freebsd-ufs > index: 2 > end: 41943039 > start: 37748736 > > I see it's labeled as freebsd-ufs. AFAIK I created this file system > with > sysinstall. > > Do I need to change the type? Any special instructions? Yes. Change the type to freebsd-swap if you're going to be dumping kernel core files on it. The anti-footshooting checks in gpart prevent you from dumping to UFS partitions: % sudo gpart modify -i 2 -t freebsd-swap ad8s2 FYI, -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt@mac.com
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