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Date:      Thu, 9 Mar 2000 06:14:20 -0500 (EST)
From:      Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
To:        fernando@cursosvirtuales.com.ar
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Debugging kernel
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.96.1000309061021.22367B-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200003091315.KAA11767@servidor1.cursosvirtuales.com.ar>

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On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Fernando P. Schapachnik wrote:

> Hello:
> 	A machine of mine is panicing very frequently. I wan't to get a
> kernel dump in order to debug the problem/submit a PR.
> 
> 	The problem is my / partition isn't big enough to hold the 11 Mb
> debug kernel. The FAQ states that config -g should produce two kernels
> (one with debbuging symbols and another without). But this doesn't
> happen. Can I compile one without symbols and debug using the other. 
> 

I made the / larger than default to put the debug kernel.  You can compile
a debug kernel on the debugging machine and then ftp the kernel to the
target machine.  If the / on the target machine is not large enough, you
can let the debug kernel overwrite the existing kernel with command
install. Then you can use remote debugging. 

-Zhihui



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