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

[Jingci Wang]

Hi Mary,

Please see below.

On 05/02/09 10:40, mary ding wrote:
> Jingci:
>
> If you boot kmdb with the -d option, then you can do this:
>
> This will cause the kernel debugger to load
>
> Loading kmdb...
>
> Welcome to kmdb
> kmdb: unable to determine terminal type: assuming `vt100'
> Loaded modules: [ unix krtld genunix ]
> [0]>
>
> At the prompt, enter "moddebug/W 0x80000000", <return> and then ":c",
> <return> which will then print out each module as it's being loaded.
> Hopefully it might give more data on why there is warning in iwk_init

Many stuffs appeared on the screen by doing the above, then moved to the 
installation the next step.
How to get those data out?

Thanks,
Jingci

>
>
> Jingci Wang wrote:
>> 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?
>> If not, how to find a way to collect info from screen ......?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jingci
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