And how do you create dumps from a kernel that hasn't finished booting
(not gotten to the stage of reading rc.conf)? 'dumps on' in kernel
config does not seem to do the job.
Nick
> A checklist for people who want kernel cores:
>
> * make sure that dumpdev is set to point to your swap partition
> in your /etc/rc.conf
>
> * make sure your swap partition is large enough to hold the crash
> dump. If you have 256MB of ram, your swap partition must be
> at least 256MB in size.
>
> * make sure /var/crash has sufficient space to hold the dump
> (note: /var/crash *can* be a softlink to a directory in some
> other partition if /var does not have sufficient space)
>
> /var/crash must nominally have sufficient space to hold the crash
> dump (a file of the same size as the amount of memory you have),
> *and* the kernel image. Normally you give it a lot more space so
> you store several crash dumps in it at once.
Nick
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