> Please post what 'info registers' and 'x/40b $eip' produce on the monitor > ('-monitor stdio' helps).
while hung on non-functioning bios: (gdb) info registers rax 0xfffffffffffffdfe -514 rbx 0xe 14 rcx 0xffffffffffffffff -1 rdx 0x7fffa4c81b70 140735957965680 rsi 0x7fffa4c81bf0 140735957965808 rdi 0xf 15 rbp 0x1 0x1 rsp 0x7fffa4c81ab0 0x7fffa4c81ab0 r8 0x7fffa4c81c70 140735957965936 r9 0xb40 2880 r10 0x7fffa4c81af0 140735957965552 r11 0x202 514 r12 0x7fffa4c81af0 140735957965552 r13 0x7fffa4c81b70 140735957965680 r14 0x7fffa4c81bf0 140735957965808 r15 0x1 1 rip 0x7f329b5ad0c2 0x7f329b5ad0c2 <select+98> eflags 0x202 [ IF ] cs 0x33 51 ss 0x2b 43 ds 0x0 0 es 0x0 0 fs 0x0 0 gs 0x0 0 fctrl 0x37f 895 fstat 0x0 0 ftag 0xffff 65535 fiseg 0x0 0 fioff 0x0 0 foseg 0x0 0 fooff 0x0 0 fop 0x0 0 mxcsr 0x1f80 [ IM DM ZM OM UM PM ] (gdb) x/40b $eip Value can't be converted to integer. (gdb) x/40b $rip 0x7f329b5ad0c2 <select+98>: 72 'H' -117 '\213' 60 '<' 36 '$' 72 'H' -119 '\211' 68 'D' 36 '$' 0x7f329b5ad0ca <select+106>: 8 '\b' -24 'è' -112 '\220' 16 '\020' 1 '\001' 0 '\0' 72 'H' -117 '\213' 0x7f329b5ad0d2 <select+114>: 68 'D' 36 '$' 8 '\b' 72 'H' -125 '\203' -60 'Ä' 56 '8' 72 'H' 0x7f329b5ad0da <select+122>: 61 '=' 1 '\001' -16 'ð' -1 'ÿ' -1 'ÿ' 115 's' 1 '\001' -61 'Ã' 0x7f329b5ad0e2 <select+130>: 72 'H' -117 '\213' 13 '\r' -65 '¿' -18 'î'39 '\'' 0 '\0' 49 '1' (gdb) x/i $rip 0x7f329b5ad0c2 <select+98>: mov (%rsp),%rdi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html