From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 30 13:07:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA02785 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 13:07:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mother.cdrom.com (mother.cdrom.com [204.216.28.172]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA02780 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 13:07:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from support@localhost) by mother.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id NAA17779 ; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 13:07:39 -0700 Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 13:07:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Paul Hsu To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: How to steps through FreeBSD 2.1 booting process using ddb (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 12:52:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Minh Tonthat To: support@cdrom.com Subject: How to steps through FreeBSD 2.1 booting process using ddb I finally was able to rebuild FreeBSD 2.1 kernel with gdb debugging information. Could you tell me how I can use gdb to trace throught the booting sequence of FreeBSD? If I would like to use gdb to learn about FeeBSD kernel, do you know any books or papers that talk about it? Minh.