Re: A trio of problems

On 3/17/09, Ivan Voras <ivoras_at_freebsd.org> 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 as follows:
   sudo gpart modify -t freebsd-swap -i 2 ad8s2b

   dumpon should work then.

-- 
Paul