From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 24 05:38:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA00853 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 05:38:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailgate.ericsson.se (mailgate.ericsson.se [130.100.2.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA00838 for ; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 05:38:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from sa.erisoft.se (epls01.sa.erisoft.se [150.132.128.1]) by mailgate.ericsson.se (8.6.11/1.0) with SMTP id OAA29038; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 14:37:56 +0100 Received: from sws021.sa.erisoft.se by sa.erisoft.se (4.1/SMI-4.1-ERIS0.99) id AA24813; Sat, 24 Feb 96 14:37:55 +0100 From: Mattias.Gronlund@sa.erisoft.se (Mattias Gronlund) Received: by sws021.sa.erisoft.se (5.x/client-1.3) id AA07866; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 14:37:12 +0100 Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 14:37:12 +0100 Message-Id: <9602241337.AA07866@sws021.sa.erisoft.se> To: bde@zeta.org.au Subject: Re: Whither ddb Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > Perhaps you have a very old boot loader that doesn't load symbol tables. > > You can tell if you have symbols by looking at the disassembly of the > current instruction. For entry via Ctrl-PrintScreen it should look > something like: > > Stopped at _Debugger+0x2b: movb $0,_in_Debugger.100 > db> > > ddb doesn't understand names with `.' in them like the one above. So that's why, I guess there isn't so many members in the coreteam that runs netbooted. So I just have to se how to get netboot to read the symboltable :-)... /Mattias