Wolfgang Rupprecht wrote:

> Greywolf writes:
> > Looks like either the header got corrupted or your memory size goes into
> > the territory of unsigned numbers.
> > 
> > ...after all, you don't *really* have 8GB of RAM in there, do you?
> 
> No I don't have 8Gig of ram (although I'm quite willing to accept
> donations ;-)).  
> 
> I do have 8 Gigs of on-disk swap space (spread over two wd*b
> partitions).  I just *assumed* the kernel could make use of a
> swap_space greater than address_space.  (Was I wrong???)

By default, savecore will try to dump to the 'b' partition of the
boot device.  Look for a "root on ... dumps on ..." line in dmesg (or
/var/run/dmesg.boot).

Also, savecore will use /netbsd to find where to grovel to fetch the
core (although from memory this has been fixed on recent -current if
the machdep.booted_kernel sysctl works on your type of system).

Simon.
--
Simon Burge                            <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
NetBSD CDs, Support and Service:    http://www.wasabisystems.com/