Linux-kernel-installer

A script for debugging the linux kernel

This script sets up a minimal linux (x64) distrib using the specified linux kernel's versions and busytools for basics shell commands.

Usage

The script must be executed with the destination directory in first parameter.

./installer.sh /tmp/toinstall

If you don't want qemu waiting for gdb connection, remove -S -s parameter at the end of the qemu-system-x86_64 command.

Otherwise, for the remote debugging:

$ gdb
> set architecture i386:x86-64
> file vmlinux
> target remote :1234
> load vmlinux

At this time should be able to put breakpoint and so on.

Dependencies

• qemu (qemu-system-x86_64)
• cpio
• gzip

Tested on ArchLinux & Debian