[indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris installation: -kdv brought the installation to kmdb

[Richard Lowe]

Jingci Wang <Jingci.Wang at Sun.COM> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I work for Soalris Cluster QA team and I am working on b111a
> installation on notebooks.
> As I am seeing errors at the very beginning of the process:
>
> WARNING: iwk_int():Radio transmitter is off
> WARNING: iwk_m_start(): failed to initialize hardware
> WARNING: iwk_int():Radio transmitter is off
> WARNING: iwk_m_start(): failed to initialize hardware
>
> And tried to boot in verbose mode with kernel debugger enabled by
> adding -kdv to kernel parameters via GRUB.
> Then only seeing the boot (via x86 installation DVD) drops to kmdb.
>
> Is it expected?

Yes, that's what -d does, it drops into kmdb at the earliest possible
opportunity.

If you just want kmdb loaded, but not to enter it as soon as possible,
just use -kv

-- Rich