On 12 August 2014 20:03, pulkomandy <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Either way is fine. Maybe the bootloader should setup a zeroed frame in > the kernel stack so the kernel stops there and doesn't try to analyze > bootloader functions? Setting up a zeroed frame sounds like a good idea. I'll work along those lines. >> >> Way to go to get the kdebug> prompt though, tried any KDL hangman yet? ;) > > "kdebug>" is the kernel debugger prompt. Besides playing kdlhangman, > you can use it to analyze various things (interrupts, semaphores, > threads, teams, etc.) Some help is available here: > https://www.haiku-os.org/documents/dev/welcome_to_kernel_debugging_land > > Is the prompt reacting to input? If not, the next step is to make that > work. Once it does, we can try to understand why the kernel crashed and > fix the issue, and then it will crash a little further. And we continue > fixing issues until the userland (and bash) runs. Yes the read_line functions and command processing are all working fine. It's probably the case that no commands are registered (yet) as Ithamar pointed out.