Maybe hook up another machine via the serial port and run KGDB
	(with plenty of breakpoints :)

		David/absolute

 -=-  "I know its not the right thing, and I know its not the good thing"  -=-

On Fri, 29 May 1998, I-Jong Lin wrote:

> To All:
> 
>     I'm starting to debug a cross-compiled kernel on my machine for
> turning on a particular accelerator.  Due to the cross-compilation and the
> accelerator and the speed of my NetBSD machine, it would be really hard to 
> do a direct trace on the kernel.  So, is there any good way of figuring out
> how far the kernel has gotten along such as putting in code to beep or flash 
> a light or something?   It's a pretty weird question, but all the changes
> I'm making are right as NetBSD starts up (+ cross-compile + accelerator stuff).
> And when it freezes at the start, I'd like to know how far it actually got.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> I-Jong
>