Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 23:53:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: rjesup@wgate.com Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG, bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein), msinz@wgate.com (Mike Sinz), bbauman@wgate.com (Bruce Bauman) Subject: Re: ELF and diskless boot Message-ID: <200102232353.QAA01672@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <ybur90pxjwo.fsf_-_@jesup.eng.tvol.net.jesup.eng.tvol.net> from "Randell Jesup" at Feb 23, 2001 02:45:59 PM
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> FYI, is there a reason that we've set up our kernel interface to top, etc > to fail unless the kernel (in this case 4.x) is loaded with _debugging_ > symbols? I.e. if you strip a kernel, top (and a bunch of other stuff) > doesn't work because they can't find certain kernel structures. To make > this worse, they also fail if you etherboot (because debug symbols aren't > loaded). Strip is supposed to be able to strip the debugging information without stripping non-debugging information. This is normally how you run a source level debugger on the kernel from another machine (or using VMware, julians pseudo-console-serial driver, and another window on the same machine): you boot the stripped kernel, and GDB with the unstripped kernel. Sounds like you are either giving the wrong arguments to strip, or it's not working on your platform (e.g. alpha). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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