Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 19:05:59 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, jkh@freefall.cdrom.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au Subject: Re: Ok, *now* it's End-Of-ALPHA Release Candidate time! Message-ID: <199506070905.TAA10152@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> I don't like it. It requires extra utilities. It stops binary
>> utilities (e.g., nm) from working right on the kernel. It slows down
>> booting. When the kernel grows a little over 640K or the disk grows a
>Uh, Bruce. The kzip'd kernel is overlayed the minute the bindist is
>extracted (and there are no utilities like nm available to get
>confused by it up to that point anyway!).
There's ddb.
>It's only for the install. After that, it's gone!
How do you debug installs without ddb? panic("cannot mount root") is
a common error for new installations and is very easy to debug using
ddb.
Bruce
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