From owner-freebsd-hackers  Mon May 20 10:03:08 1996
Return-Path: owner-hackers
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA00441
          for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 20 May 1996 10:03:08 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251])
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA00436
          for <hackers@freebsd.org>; Mon, 20 May 1996 10:03:04 -0700 (PDT)
Received: (from julian@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.7.3/8.6.9) id KAA18601; Mon, 20 May 1996 10:00:16 -0700 (PDT)
Message-Id: <199605201700.KAA18601@ref.tfs.com>
Subject: Re: Involking DDB
To: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis)
Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 10:00:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: "JULIAN Elischer" <julian@ref.tfs.com>
Cc: hackers@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199605201438.KAA21695@etinc.com> from "Dennis" at May 20, 96 10:38:25 am
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 ME8b]
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

 hit <CTL><ALT><ESC>
 or boot -d
 which makes it enter debug as sson as it is feasible to do so.....

> 
> 
> Is there a way to start DDB without a system crash...ie run the kernel in
> some sort of monitoring mode on demand?
> 
> Dennis
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Emerging Technologies, Inc.      http://www.etinc.com
> 
> Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For
> Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame
> Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25 for BSD/OS, FreeBSD 
> and LINUX
> 
>