On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Greg Lehey wrote:
> > You must not have a very current -current :-). /dev/wd0 is a character
> > device (with the same major/minor and character as /dev/rwd0) in -current:
> >
> > crw-r- 1 root operator3, 0x00010002 Dec 1 04:34 rwd0
> > crw-r- 1 root operator
On Wednesday, 1 December 1999 at 4:43:05 +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Thomas Stromberg wrote:
>
> [ache wrote]:
>> "
>>> I see no needs of this change. I have -current dumpon/savecore work with
>>> old entrly like /dev/wd0...
>>> savecore understand both character and old blo
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Thomas Stromberg wrote:
[ache wrote]:
> "
> > I see no needs of this change. I have -current dumpon/savecore work with
> > old entrly like /dev/wd0...
> > savecore understand both character and old block devices now.
You must not have a very current -current :-). /dev/wd0 i
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Thomas Stromberg wrote:
> "
> > I see no needs of this change. I have -current dumpon/savecore work with
> > old entrly like /dev/wd0...
> > savecore understand both character and old block devices now.
> >
>
> While I see your commit in cvsweb to savecore, I still run into
On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 10:49:57AM -0500, Thomas Stromberg wrote:
> [root@karma] dumpon> dumpon /dev/wd0s1b
> dumpon: /dev/wd0s1b: must specify a block device
> [root@karma] dumpon> dumpon /dev/rwd0s1b
> [root@karma] dumpon>
>
> Bug or Feature?
This message is confusing and means just opposite
"
> I see no needs of this change. I have -current dumpon/savecore work with
> old entrly like /dev/wd0...
> savecore understand both character and old block devices now.
>
While I see your commit in cvsweb to savecore, I still run into this
(just cvsupp'd off of cvsup6.freebsd.org and rebuilt i
On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 09:37:41AM -0500, Thomas Stromberg wrote:
> You need to make world first or at least rebuild savecore/dumpon, as
> ache made some commits to it this morning.
>
> IE, old dumpdev in /etc/rc.conf: dumpdev="/dev/wd0s1b"
>
> Should be changed to: dumpdev
While this was mentioned in the commit log for dumpon.c by phk, I figure
I'd save you the loss of a kernel core to find out like the one I lost
this morning. In rc.conf (or wherever you load dumpon) make sure you
change it to using a raw device. dumpon no longer accepts block devices,
as they were
