will try this out and let you all know about it.
I used the -d option explicitly because the netbsd
page told me to.
regards
-kamal

--- john heasley <heas@shrubbery.net> wrote:
> i thought that booting a kernel with kgdb does not
> wait for a
> client unless the -d option is supplied and that
> should a panic
> occur later, it will wait for a client at that time.
> 
> Thu, May 30, 2002 at 04:13:30PM -0700, Kamal Prasad:
> > if this is true, then why bother to have seperate
> > #ifdefs for DDB and KGDB? or why have the
> kgdb_stub.c
> > at all? am I missing something here?
> > thanks
> > -kamal
> > 
> > --- Michael Core <520079546242-0001@t-online.de>
> > wrote:
> > > If you compile the kernel with DDB and set your
> > > console to ttyXX in
> > > /etc/ttys the system should behave as you
> described.
> > > Though I'm not sure
> > > whether this works during booting.
> > > 
> > > Michael
> > 
> > 
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