[syslinux] extlinux: missing text on serial output

Sebastian Herbszt herbszt at gmx.de
Tue Jun 24 08:02:16 PDT 2008


From: "Ferenc Wagner"
> Just to wander even farther from the original subject line, the ELF
> format makes symbolic debugging possible.
> 
> $ qemu -fda extlinux.144 -serial stdio -s -S
> $ gdb extlinux.elf
> (gdb) set architecture i8086 
> (gdb) target remote localhost:1234
> 
> gets me pretty far, but I can't get a meaningful backtrace, as if
> GDB didn't recognize the stack correctly.  What do I miss?

I am using qemu+gdb for syslinux and com32 module debugging
with pretty decent results. What are you trying to achieve?
Maybe describe it in a new thread?

- Sebastian




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