From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 13 09:25:34 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id JAA15663 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 13 Sep 1995 09:25:34 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA15625 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 1995 09:25:25 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id SAA18973 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 1995 18:24:55 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id SAA00536 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 13 Sep 1995 18:24:55 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id QAA04359 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 13 Sep 1995 16:46:11 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199509131446.QAA04359@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: on line kernel symbols? To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 16:46:11 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199509130105.SAA00166@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Sep 12, 95 06:05:07 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 583 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As David Greenman wrote: > > >I forgot what was the "magic" switch to load symbols at boot time > If you have current boot blocks and you have DDB in your kernel, then the > symbols are automatically loaded and preserved. No options are needed. If you want to shoot in your foot, try booting a "-g" kernel. :-) It will happily consume 8 MB of physical RAM... non-pageable, of course. (If you want to avoid this, strip -x it before.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)