Making sense of a system coredump

[John F Haugh II]

In article <1991Jun13.220751.26994 at convex.com> bout at convex.com (David Boutilier) writes:
>I'm afraid you're pretty much stuck with using adb.  To the best of my
>knowledge, no other debugger will work effectively with the kernel.

Not that his system actually has the "crash" command, but that is my
preferred tool.  You typically can find out what module was being
executed that caused the panic as well as the location (if you are
handy with ADB).
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