Re: kernel oops decoder

[stappers@stappers.nl (Geert Stappers)]

On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 12:05:31AM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> Joey Hess wrote:
> [snip]
> > > Please tell me and the other lurkers here more
> > > how to decode kernel oopses in debian-installer.
> > > 
> > > For what I see, is that the package ksymoops is needed at the target system.
> > 
> > Well we use the stock debian i386 kernel, so you just get another system
> > with that kernel and run ksymoops on the oops output there.

Okay

> 
> ksymoops has even a -t flag to select the target architecture.
> You usually do
> 
> ksymoops -t <arch> -m </path/to/system.map> -v </path/to/vmlinux> \
> 	-o </path/to/modules-dir> oopsfile > oopsfile.decoded
> 
> for cross-target oops dump decoding.
> 

Nice. Development for an other (the next?) architecture is cool.

BUT: How to transfer the oops to the computer with ksymoops ???
It is d-i we are talking about, it has wget. Is there a "wput"?

Should I have use a serial console?

> 
> Thiemo


Cheers
Geert Stappers