Subject: Re: cannot configure wd0i as dump device
To: Christian Groessler <cpg@aladdin.de>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/10/2006 22:53:57
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 09:15:41PM +0200, Christian Groessler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use wd0i as swap device (sharing it with a Linux installation), but
> I cannot configure the kernel to use it as dump device.
>
> I have this line in my config:
>
> ---------
> config netbsd root on ? type ffs dumps on wd0i
> ---------
>
> I get an error when I try to configure the kernel:
>
> ---------
> $ /usr/local/tools/bin/nbconfig POLLY
> POLLY:229: netbsd: invalid dumps device name `wd0i'
> POLLY has no configurations!
> *** Stop.
> $
> ---------
Maybe the config program isn't up to date for 16 partitions
> If I remove the "dumps on wd0i" in the configuration file it works.
>
> Here's the disklabel of the machine:
>
> ---------
> .....
> 10 partitions:
> # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
> c: 2343751 2993760 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 3168 - 5648*)
> d: 8448300 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 8939)
> e: 423297 63 MSDOS # (Cyl. 0*- 447)
> f: 2570400 423360 MSDOS # (Cyl. 448 - 3167)
> g: 2343751 2993760 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 3168 - 5648*)
> i: 382814 5337574 swap # (Cyl. 5648*- 6053*)
> j: 2727849 5720451 Linux Ext2 0 0 # (Cyl. 6053*- 8939)
> ---------
A workaround is to add
/dev/wd0i none dump dp
in /etc/fstab
--
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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