I am using FreeBSD 4.0 and have two questions on kernel debugging: (1) Can I specify /usr/src/sys/compile/MYKERN/kernel.debug as the kernel to boot from manually without copying that file under /? It seems I can not do so. I guess the reason is that the /usr is not mounted at that time.
(2) After bootup, I try the following to debug the live system (after reading some pages of the book "Panic! Unix system crash dump analysis"): now4# gdb -k /kernel.debug /dev/mem (kgdb) run Starting program: /kernel.debug Program terminated with signal SIGABRT, Aborted. The program no longer exists. You can't do that without a process to debug. Is there something wrong? I did the same thing with the postmortem coredump files and got similar messages. Maybe I am using gdb in a wrong way. Any help is appreciated. -------------------------------------------------- Zhihui Zhang. Please visit http://www.freebsd.org -------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
