Re: getting a coredump before boot device found

2002-07-01 Thread Don Lewis
On 30 Jun, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Charles Sprickman wrote: > >> On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Julian Elischer wrote: >> > do you have 2 machines you can link together? >> >> Oh yes. But I know nothing about remote gdb. > > it's not that difficult.. > > have the source and

Re: getting a coredump before boot device found

2002-06-30 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Julian Elischer wrote: Thanks Julian, I promise to tinker with this in the future... I dug through all my junk here and I have no null modem cable/adapter. I'm going to just go back there with my laptop and this page: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/04/Big_Scary_Da

Re: getting a coredump before boot device found

2002-06-30 Thread Julian Elischer
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Charles Sprickman wrote: > On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > at that stage abut all you can do is live debugging.. > > Meaning boot kernel.debug directlly so I've got a kernel with symbols and > then get out the pen and paper? > > > do you have 2 machine

Re: getting a coredump before boot device found

2002-06-30 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Julian Elischer wrote: > at that stage abut all you can do is live debugging.. Meaning boot kernel.debug directlly so I've got a kernel with symbols and then get out the pen and paper? > do you have 2 machines you can link together? Oh yes. But I know nothing about remot

Re: getting a coredump before boot device found

2002-06-30 Thread Julian Elischer
at that stage abut all you can do is live debugging.. do you have 2 machines you can link together? On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Charles Sprickman wrote: > Hi, > > I'm wondering if there's any way to get a coredump on a machine that's > panicing while probing ata-attached drives. I'd like to help so

getting a coredump before boot device found

2002-06-30 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi, I'm wondering if there's any way to get a coredump on a machine that's panicing while probing ata-attached drives. I'd like to help someone fix whatever this remaining ata bug is in 4.6 and -stable, but I'm stumped on how to do this. I can break into the debugger, but my only option there t