From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 27 17:32:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA04150 for current-outgoing; Sat, 27 Dec 1997 17:32:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA04138 for ; Sat, 27 Dec 1997 17:32:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA18971; Sat, 27 Dec 1997 17:23:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from UNKNOWN(), claiming to be "current1.whistle.com" via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd018969; Sat Dec 27 17:23:35 1997 Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 17:20:38 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Chris Timmons cc: Bruce Evans , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: no boot: config -g and options DDB In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk you don't need to BOOt it just have it around when you look at hte core dump.. boot a stripped (with -d) version of the same kernel. On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, Chris Timmons wrote: > > It says that in the section about remote debugging using gdb. Should I be > able to boot a kernel that is config -g'd with options DDB and not > stripped? Actually I'm not really trying to do remote kernel debugging > with gdb. > > I was thinking that I would want to config -g to make a more interesting > dump when I call panic from in ddb, allowing me to do some poking later > with KGDB. > > How does BRUCE do it??? :) > > -c > > On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, Bruce Evans wrote: > > > >but it boots when I strip -x the kernel like it says to do in the > > >handbook. "never mind" :) > > > > It shouldn't say that. -x breaks everything that needs static symbols, > > e.g., systat. -d is correct. > > > > Bruce > > > >