Re: Dumping problem

["Matt D. Robinson" <yakker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Benjamin J Pracht wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure if I'm seeing any messages like dump complete or writing
> header.  It looks like I may, but I can't be sure because it immediately
> goes into some kind of on screen dump.   I don't have a /dev/vmdump, but
> instead I point the DUMPDEV variable to /dev/hda5, which is a block based
> swap device.
> 
> Any thoughts?

First thing, you can make a link from /dev/vmdump to /dev/hda5 -- that
way you can change the dump device without having to change the scripts.
The second point is, do you see a "dump_open()" message in the 'dmesg'
output?

--Matt