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- Path: sparky!uunet!orca!javelin.sim.es.com!rpack
- From: rpack@javelin.sim.es.com (Rick Pack)
- Subject: Re: Help: Kernel Debugger
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.180216.3718@javelin.sim.es.com>
- Sender: Rick Pack
- Reply-To: rpack@javelin.sim.es.com
- Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, Utah
- References: <1992Sep7.145724.22530@hns.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 18:02:16 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- oneil@hns.com (Pat O'Neil) writes:
-
- >Anyone have any experience with the OS/2/2.0 Debug Kernel? I have installed
- >it and can't get it to respond to an async terminal on COM1. I've
- >read the directions pretty carefully and done everything they say, including:
- >
- >...... stuff deleted
- >
- >I would greatly appreciate any help.
- >
- >Pat O'Neil
- >Hughes Network Systems
- >Germantown, Md.
-
- Pat,
- I had terrible trouble with the debug kernel when I first tried to get
- it to work. My system would crash after about 30 seconds of use. Just
- getting it to boot was iffy. I then started debugging with just printf
- statements, using the original kernal, figuring that the debugging kernal
- was buggy.
- Just last week, I realized that the debugging kernal is NOT necessary, as
- there is a great debugger included in the c-set2 package that runs under
- PM and will debug PM programs. It's called IPMD. I STILL do not know
- what the purpose of the debugging kernal is, as IPMD works just fine without
- it, and there is none of this async terminal/serial port stuff.
- The install documentation for workset/2 never mentions IPMD, just the debug
- kernal, which leads you to believe that it is your only option.
-
- Good luck
- --
- Rick Pack -WC7W-
- Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp.
- Salt Lake City, Utah
- (801) 582-5847
-