Subject: Re: writing crashdump
To: Pavel Cahyna <pavel.cahyna@st.mff.cuni.cz>
From: Mipam <mipam@ux11.ltcm.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/23/2006 19:27:52
On Tue, 23 May 2006, Pavel Cahyna wrote:

> On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 04:25:42PM +0200, Mipam wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I wished to generate a crashdump.
> > After rebooting with the kernel that crashes and ending up in db>
> > I type: reboot 0x100
> > However, i then see that it's unable to write the crashdump and reboots, 
> > so i cannot get a crashdump, to make a backtrace later.
> > Do i need to specify somewhere to write the crashdump to swap or?
> > And how to do this?
> 
> Please specify more precisely what happens after you typed "reboot 0x100".
> "it's unable to write" does not tell much.

Unable to write to dev 1,0 is what the message displays.
This is all it mentiones. :-(