kadb — Kernel Debugger

Synopsis

SPARC Platform
ok boot device-specifier kadb [-d][boot-flags]
> b kadb [-d][boot-flags]
IA Platform
select (b)oot or (i)nterpreter: b kadb [-d][boot-flags]
select (b)oot or (i)nterpreter: i kadb [-d][boot-flags]

Description

The kadb command is an interactive kernel debugger with a user interface similar to that of adb(1), the assembly language debugger.

You must load kadb before the standalone program it is to debug. kadb runs with the same environment as the standalone program, so it shares many resources with that program. The debugger is aware of and able to control multiple processors, should they be present in a system.

When you start kadb, it requests the default file name from boot(1M), and if loaded ...

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