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Date:      Thu, 8 May 1997 12:06:09 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Privileged Instruction Fault...
Message-ID:  <19970508120609.AH44796@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.970507224456.Shimon@i-Connect.Net>; from Simon Shapiro on May 7, 1997 22:38:26 -0700
References:  <199705080315.MAA27753@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> <XFMail.970507224456.Shimon@i-Connect.Net>

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As Simon Shapiro wrote:

> Nope :-( The source changes too fast.  Would be a waste of anyone's
> time.  Besides, I think I am missing something in the configuration,
> as the kernel dumps do not happen.  Also, do you know how to force
> entering into the kernel debugger?  It should happen when you panic,
> but does not.  Maybe you can have a look at the DPT configuration
> file and tell me.

Well, Simon, you should really setup a second machine containing the
kernel compile tree, and run remote kgdb.  It's a big help for such
cases.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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