you almost had it with your acid approach :) if your kernel image is uncompressed and is unstriped, you can just load it with acid:
acid /386/9pc if you build it yourself, then there should be such a kernel in /sys/src/9/pc -- cinap
--- Begin Message ---> the pc's printed by the lock loop message are kernel code. you > have to load a debug kernel into acid. Thanks, I'll do some digging in the Acid document(s), try to familiarise myself with the details... ++L
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