Re: [Kgdb-bugreport] kgdb over ethernet

[Tom R. <tr...@ke...>]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 06:25:07PM -0400, George G. Davis wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 05:13:53AM -0700, driversbin driversbin wrote:
> > Hi,
> > when i try to boot the kernel i get a message 
> >  
> > Netconsole: not configured , aborting...
> >  
> >  
> > how do we go about solving this problem . I have selected Netconsole in the make menuconfig not as a module
> 
> Did you append "kgdboe=@192.168.1.94/,@192.168.1.100/" on your cmdline?
> 
> See the documentation for kgdboe options syntax.
> 
> Also enable SysRq support and you can use SysRq-G to invoke KGDB from
> the console (assuming your console device includes SysRq support).

All good advice (thanks George!), but with 2.6 SysRq can now be
triggered via /proc/sysrq-trigger, ie "echo g > /proc/sysrq-trigger".
So long as you can get into the system, you can SysRq.

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Tom Rini
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