Subject: Re: savecore: can't find device 1121/411252
To: None <port-xen@netbsd.org>
From: Petar Bogdanovic <list+2007@smokva.net>
List: port-xen
Date: 11/16/2007 14:54:59
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 09:39:07PM +0100, Petar Bogdanovic wrote:
> Hi,
>
> one of our remote servers just booted XEN3_DOM0 successfully (joy!) and
> the only confusing thing was the following line in dmesg:
>
> Nov 15 20:27:47 hendrix savecore: can't find device 1121/411252
>
>
> Does somebody know what that means? savecore had no problems to find the
> dump-device with GENERIC.MP. The wd0, wd1 and raid0 labels look like (I
> tried to `ascii-connect' the overlapping partitions):
>
> $ sudo disklabel wd0 2>/dev/null | egrep '^( |#)'
> # /dev/rwd0d:
> # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
> +---a: 1048576 127 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0*- 1040*)
> |+--b: 8388608 1048703 swap # (Cyl. 1040*- 9362*)
> || c: 781422705 63 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0*- 775220)
> || d: 781422768 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 775220)
> || e: 781422705 63 RAID # (Cyl. 0*- 775220)
> ||
> || $ sudo disklabel wd1 2>/dev/null | egrep '^( |#)'
> || # /dev/rwd1d:
> || # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
> +|--a: 1048576 127 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0*- 1040*)
> |+--b: 8388608 1048703 swap # (Cyl. 1040*- 9362*)
> || c: 781422705 63 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0*- 775220)
> || d: 781422768 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 775220)
> || e: 781422705 63 RAID # (Cyl. 0*- 775220)
> ||
> || $ sudo disklabel raid0 2>/dev/null | egrep '^( |#)'
> || # /dev/rraid0d:
> || # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
> +|->a: 1048576 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 1023)
> +->b: 8388608 1048576 swap # (Cyl. 1024 - 9215)
> c: 781422592 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 763107)
> d: 781422592 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 763107)
> e: 8388608 9437184 4.2BSD 2048 16384 0 # (Cyl. 9216 - 17407)
> f: 8388608 17825792 4.2BSD 2048 16384 0 # (Cyl. 17408 - 25599)
> g: 8388608 26214400 4.2BSD 2048 16384 0 # (Cyl. 25600 - 33791)
> h: 8388608 34603008 4.2BSD 2048 16384 0 # (Cyl. 33792 - 41983)
> i: 738430976 42991616 4.2BSD 2048 16384 0 # (Cyl. 41984 - 763107)
Eh, RTFM:
``but please note, you should install the same kernel into
domainU as /netbsd in order to make your system tools, like
savecore(8), work''
Of course, this applies to dom0 kernels too. :)
http://www.netbsd.org/ports/xen/howto.html