Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 14:13:18 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Whither ddb Message-ID: <199602241313.OAA09214@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199602241147.LAA01043@exalt.x.org> from "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" at Feb 24, 96 06:47:15 am
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As Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote: > > The system will also drop into the debugger automagically on panics, > > which is usually the primary use of it. > > Except that the syscalls I've added don't cause a panic, so ctrl-alt-esc > is a nice thing to know about. :-) Well, i assume you're running X11 sometimes. :) In this case, a serial console might also come handy to you. So you can hook up another machine with kermit as the console. If you also add options BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER (and recompile sio.c), you can issue a serial line BREAK (^\-b in kermit) instead of Ctrl-Alt-ESC. To temporarily switch to a serial console, enter -h at the boot prompt. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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