>I've determined that if I BFU my system:
>
>  [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a
>  SunOS orthanc 5.11 opensol-20061030 i86pc i386 i86pc
>
>...to opensol-20061103 that I get a kernel panic just after the initial 
>SunOS copyright notices and then the system reboots.

>However, the system reboots so quickly that I can't read what actually 
>went wrong. Furthermore, when I go back into my system, there's no 
>obvious core dump or crash file which makes sense to me as I think it's 
>crashing in a ramdisk before a hard disk is mounted.

At the "-k" to the boot command line in grub and the kernel will
stop in the debugger rather than panic,.

>I added "-kd" onto the kernel boot parameters which dropped me into the 
>kernel debugger but then I realised I had no idea how to use the 
>debugger or what to look for.

Uhm yes, so you knew that already....

Try:

$C

which gives the stack trace.

Casper
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