On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 09:19:37AM -0800, Don Jackson wrote: > > When I boot the machine, I see: > > root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b > > I guess the kernel devaults to wd0b for swap and dump? >
it defaults to root disk, partition b (wd0b for you). > > But later in the boot messages I see: > > savecore: /dev/wd0b: Device not configured > you do not actually have a /dev/wd0b, right? i think that is causing the problem. > > How can I configure savecore to use the real swap partition on this system? > i don;t think the error message comes from savecore. the problem is there is no wd0b (i'm guessing). i think you have two solutions: - create a minimal /dev/wd0b - build a kernel telling it to use sd0b as swap. look at the "config bsd root on dev [swap on dev] ..." line in config(8). jmc