From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265531AbTHGPmp (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2003 11:42:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263861AbTHGPmp (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2003 11:42:45 -0400 Received: from [81.173.206.50] ([81.173.206.50]:57425 "EHLO sun.richardstevens.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265531AbTHGPl7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2003 11:41:59 -0400 From: Richard Stevens To: "Randy.Dunlap" Subject: Re: Newbie debugging question Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 17:41:32 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 Cc: References: <200308070230.49802.mail@richardstevens.de> <32841.4.4.25.4.1060233933.squirrel@www.osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <32841.4.4.25.4.1060233933.squirrel@www.osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308071741.55548.mail@richardstevens.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, > I suggest asking on the kernelnewbies mailing list (see kernelnewbies.org). > Also, some people started on this web page, but it's only a beginning: > http://lse.sourceforge.net/debugging/ thanks for the info. I'll do that. > What kernel version? That would have some effects on the answer. 2.4.21 vanilla (now with the latest version of sgi's kdb) > > Serial console is the usual option/route. If it boots completely, > you could also try netconsole (or, dare I say it, usb console). > Or LKCD (lkcd.sf.net), or kmsgdump (2.5.75/2.6.0 at > http://www.xenotime.net/linux/kmsgdump/2.5.75/). I'll check these. I managed to get some information via kdb and serial console. Don't know if it is useful but I guess they will tell me :-) Thanks again, Richard PS: In case of answers to this, please CC me since I'm not subscribed.