Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 08:32:23 -0800 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: sasdrq@unx.sas.com Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Failure in debug kernel Message-ID: <199802041632.IAA02776@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <199802031258.AA03314@gamecock.unx.sas.com> References: <199802031258.AA03314@gamecock.unx.sas.com>
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In article <199802031258.AA03314@gamecock.unx.sas.com>,
David Quattlebaum <sasdrq@unx.sas.com> wrote:
> I tried to build a debug kernel yesterday and when I booted it,
> it printed an error and rebooted faster than I could read the
> screen. This went on until we brought up kernel.old.
>
> steps I took to build the kernel (from 3.0-980128-SNAP):
>
> o cp GENERIC DEBUG
> o added "OPTIONS DDB" to DEBUG
> o config -g DEBUG
> o make depend && make && make install
For this last step, try instead:
make depend && make
cp kernel kernel.unstripped
strip -d kernel
make install
I don't know whether this is really the problem or not. It looks like
you have plenty of RAM. But still, an unstripped debug kernel has a
_lot_ of symbols, and they all get loaded into RAM at boot time. It
is often a source of problems similar to the one you reported.
John
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John Polstra jdp@polstra.com
John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA
"Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth
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