>> Now what the hell do I do with this [a kernel coredump from
>> savecore] if I'm interested in finding out exactly what blew up?
>> Use gdb on the saved kernel image and core?

> Good question.

> GDB likes user-land core files.  They have a core header which gives
> the value of the PC and registers at the time of the core.

> A kernel core file is a raw dump of physical memory.  You have 8 MB
> of RAM so you got an 8 MB core.  There is no core header.

> Worse, this is _physical_ memory.  [...MMU...]

Um, isn't this what gdb -k is all about?  And besides, while the dump
written to the swap area may be just an image of core, doesn't savecore
do some massaging on it?  I thought it did, but I haven't looked lately
so I could well be wrong.

					der Mouse

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