Subject: Re: NetBSD/sparc diskless problems
To: None <port-sparc@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu, mouse@Lightning.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
From: Paul Kranenburg <pk@cs.few.eur.nl>
List: port-sparc
Date: 08/11/1994 13:32:46
> lot of time, hence this note.  I have ddb in the kernel, but it does
> not appear to know about the kernel's symbol table, which makes stack
> traces less than wonderful.  (On looking at the ddb code, it appears to
> know how to deal with symbol tables, but for whatever reason it isn't
> recognizing or printing any symbol names.)

Loading symbols requires cooperation from the bootstrap loader. Sun's /boot
knows nothing about DDB. The bootblocks in -current do, but you'll need
a bit of courage to use them (i'm using them on my machine, but I've have not
yet heard of others). If your machine has a floppy, you can use that to load
the kernel. Diskless booting is currently not supported though.

-pk

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