Subject: Re: While I'm booting, can I drop into the debugger?
To: Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd@twofifty.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: current-users
Date: 06/15/2003 21:56:37
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 11:33:31AM -0700, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:
> I'm still having troubles booting, so I'd like to see what I can do to
> poke around while it's trying.
> 
> Do I have to set up serial networking or something? :)

A serial console may be convenient, but it's not mandatory.
at the boot prompt, you can type:
boot -d
and you'll be into the debbuger. Once there, you can single-step, set
breakpoints, etc ...

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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