Craig Metz wrote:

>>> 	Whenever I attempt to boot a NetBSD kernel that has the full
>>> debug table in it, the boot loader (v1.27 & v1.28) prints the appropriate 
>>> segment breakdown and appears to be properly reading the kernel, but, when
>>> it would normally jump to the kernel's entry point and start running, my
>>> system goes off into never-never land. Is this problem being worked on?

Jason Thorpe wrote:

>>Ick ... I thought the kernel size limit disappeared a long time ago.  I 
>>wonder if anyone was aware of it :-)

>>How big is your kernel with debugging symbols?

>-rwx------  1 root  ipv6  8405572 May 21 11:42 netbsd.gdb

>	Once upon a time it was bigger (I stripped out some options). But it
>still won't boot. The stripped version works fine.

	It didn't occur to me earlier what it was you were trying to do.

	"netbsd.gdb" isn't really intended to be booted, I don't think.
Especially since most machines don't have enough memory to handle this.

	The "netbsd" produced from "strip -d" IS to be booted, and the 
.gdb file is to be used as the symbols file with the "gdb -k" command.

	Of course I've not done it in a while...

Cheers,
Phil
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