loading the symbol table for remote gdb.

["Boerner, Brian" <Brian_Boerner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm relatively new to linux so everything
appears to be a little bit backwards from what I'm used to. I've
spent the better part of my career working on the sparc architecture.

My problem is getting the symbol table to show up remotely.

I've built the kernel and the modules on the target system.

After installing the modules and the kernel, I made a tar file
of the source tree and objects and ftped it over to the remote
system. 

I've now got duplicate source trees. I run gdb remotely in
the /usr/src/linux-2.2.14-gdb directory.

After conenction is established, I load the vmlinux file
(gdb) load vmlinux

Loading section .text, size 0xb2997 lma 0x80100000
Loading section .text.lock, size 0x2e01 lma 0x801b2998
Loading section .rodata, size 0x22c80 lma 0x801b57a0
Loading section .kstrtab, size 0x2525 lma 0x801d8420
Loading section __ex_table, size 0xcb8 lma 0x801da950
Loading section __ksymtab, size 0x1440 lma 0x801db608
Loading section .data, size 0x29334 lma 0x801dca60
Loading section .data.init_task, size 0x2000 lma 0x80206000
Ignoring packet error, continuing...
Loading section .text.init, size 0xac82 lma 0x80208000

Then the system target reboots itself. I'm guessing it takes so
long for vmlinux to load, that it times out and reboots.

Any Guesses
?

 -bmb-


Brian M. Boerner
System Software Developer
Adaptec, Inc.
Nashua, NH 03060
(603) 579-4625