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Date:      Wed, 1 Aug 2001 12:15:56 +0200
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To:        "Eugene L. Vorokov" <vel@bugz.infotecs.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: crash dump output
Message-ID:  <20010801121556.A95117@student.uu.se>
In-Reply-To: <200108010831.f718VCj16040@bugz.infotecs.ru>
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.30.0108011218230.29190-100000@sunk2.sasi.com> <200108010831.f718VCj16040@bugz.infotecs.ru>

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On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 12:31:12PM +0400, Eugene L. Vorokov wrote:
> >   you just call config with '-g' option. and compile the kernel in normal
> > way. The freebsd handbook discusses this in more detail.
> 
> Yet another issue, I have run config -g, then make depend, make and
> make install.debug. But my /kernel is still about 2mb long, which probably
> means it's not really debug kernel. However I see kernel.debug in the
> compile directory which is about 8mb long. Should I copy it manually to the
> / and boot this one ?

No. You boot the normal /kernel as usual.  The debug kernel is used
when analyzing a crashdump with gdb.
The FAQ has more information about this.
(14.12 "How can I make the most of the data I see when my kernel panics?")



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Erik Trulsson
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