Re: (wh)OOPS.txt

[Andreas Bombe]

On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 01:09:35PM -0700, Andrew T. Scott wrote:
> K.  Working on it/Will do...
> 
> I'm waiting to hear back from the user so we can try and get the system to boot
> with a floppy and then run ksymoops.  At the moment the box is dead and won't
> do anything.
> 
> The user has sent me some more information, but as pointed out by some one
> else, not much of it is useful with out ksymoops being run on the box.

ksymoops doesn't need to be run on the box the crash happened, it just
needs the symbol information from the running kernel (the System.map
that was created while compiling the kernel in use).  If you can
extract the System.map that would help a lot already (not as much if
some relevant addresses were in modules, but still enough).

Look at the ksymoops command line options to see what you can do.

Booting with a floppy alone is not of much use if this floppy starts a
different kernel than the one that created the oops.  You'd still have
to get at the System.map (and in this case explicitly tell ksymoops
not to use the symbol information of the running kernel).
 
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