Subject: Re: where to dump?
To: None <mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu>
From: Antti Kantee <pooka@iki.fi>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/23/2000 14:12:10
On Sun Apr 23 2000 at 07:08:11 -0400, mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:

> on 1.4.2 at boot time:
> ....
> root on sd1a dumps on sd1b
> root file system type: ffs
> swapctl: adding /dev/sd2b as swap device at priority 0
> ....
> 
> however, there is no sd1b, the drive has no swap on it, all the swap is on
> sd2.  Should I worry about this?  Can I change it?  Something like
> root on sd1a dumps on sd2b 
> sounds better.  savecore(8) didn't shed much light, but I'm not sure thats
> the right place to look.

You can change it (at least) either by interactively specifying it to
the kernel at boottime or in your kernel config. It's documented in in
arch/pmax/conf/DSG (perhaps you'll find it in your heart to document it
elsewhere also ;).

-- 
Antti Kantee <pooka@iki.fi>                    Of course he runs NetBSD.