Monday, June 28, 2004, 10:52:20 AM, you wrote: > my ThinkPad gets a kernel panic if I boot a kernel with atapicam > enabled. So I try to obtain a crash dump to get a backtrace. > Unfortunately it seems so, that the kernel crashs quit early. Although I > put dumpdev=/dev/ad0s1b in my loader.conf, I can't call doadump without > getting the message: "Partition too small. Dump failed." Is your swap partition big enough ? It has to be at least as big as your physical memory. Fred Who had to wait for a server with 3Gig of RAM to write its dump... -- Imagine a stegosaurus wearing rocket powered roller skates, & you'll get a fair idea of its elegance, stability & ease of crash recovery. (Lionel Lauer in the SDM)Received on Tue Jun 29 2004 - 11:52:21 UTC
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