Garrett D'Amore wrote: > Alexandra (Sasha) Fedorova wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> When I used to debug Solaris on SPARC, I'd send a "break" signal Ctrl-] to >> the console, the system would drop into "ok" prompt and I'd start mdb like >> this: "mdb -k". However, on x86 platform the break signal does not drop you >> into the ok prompt, and I recall reading somewhere online that there isn't >> such a thing as "ok" prompt on x86 architectures. >> >> Could you please guide me in the right direction? How do I drop into the >> kernel debugger on x86 architectures? >> >> > > There is no PROM debugger (ok prompt). > > However: on both architectures, mdb -K on the system console will drop > into the kernel debugger (kmdb) for you, even if you forgot to boot via > kmdb. > > Break on a serial console should also drop you to the debugger, but > *only* if you have the kernel debugger loaded (e.g. via mdb -K or the > appropriate boot command in the GRUB command line.) > > There's also a keyboard sequence to do it for PS/2 keyboards -- I'm > pretty sure its CTRL-ALT-D (note that is "D" as in David, not > DELETE!) I've not tested to find out if it works for USB keyboards. > > -- Garrett > And, of course, man kmdb should help...
max > >> Thanks! >> >> >> This message posted from opensolaris.org >> _______________________________________________ >> opensolaris-code mailing list >> opensolaris-code@opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-code mailing list > opensolaris-code@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code > > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list opensolaris-code@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
