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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] kernel debug - how
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 09:34:34 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <07c615ea6bbe0b48d28019e1c0f3249c@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <80033b3bc85e1e5d0e0694b1623a66eb@snellwilcox.com>

You can debug the kernel with acid -k but there
is no way to write to kernel memory.

However, you can set that variable by doing

	echo debug >/dev/fd0ctl

(There is no way to change it back to zero
after that, which is itself a bug.)

Russ



  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-26 14:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-26 14:22 Steve Simon
2003-02-26 14:34 ` Russ Cox [this message]
2003-03-01  3:41 Christopher Nielsen

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