I thought there was a way to debug the kernel live on its own machine, as long as you have more than one processor (we do) and you don't set a breakpoint in synchronization code. > -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On > Behalf Of Rodrigo Barbosa > Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 11:01 AM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] How do I debug the kernel? > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Using gdb to debug the kernel is not an easy trick. You will need > a kgdb patch for the kernel, and 2 computers. 1 for running the kernel, > and one for the debuger. These computers should be connected using a > serial (RS232) cable. > > Please take notice I haven't done this since the 2.0 days, so things > might have changed, but I don't expect they changed much. >