[syslinux] extlinux: missing text on serial output

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Jun 24 09:54:33 PDT 2008


Sebastian Herbszt wrote:
> 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?
> 

He's trying to debug the core, not a com32 module, that's the difference.

	-hpa




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