Getting kernel dumps

[Willem Jan Withagen]

> After fixing user core dumps > 2 Gb, I'm now in search of getting my
kerneldumps
> to work.....
>
> opteron# uname -a
> FreeBSD opteron.digiware.nl 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #17: Fri Jun  4
15:2
> 9:43 CEST 2004
wjw at opteron.digiware.nl:/usr/obj/home2/src/sys/OPTERON.amd64
>  amd64
>
>
> This is what I do:
> ----------------
>     ctrl-alt-esc
>
> db> call doadump
> Dumping 2046 MB
>
> Dump failed. Partition too small.
> 0x23
> ----------------
>
> Which is sort of bogus since the swappartition is "only" 5GB and there's only
> 2 GB of memory in the box.

Pilot error in this one.....

dumpon /dev/ad0s2b was my friend

I'll send a PR to take this as aspecific example so other do not get burnt as
well.

--WjW