How to set up a debugging environment.

["become who you are born to be.... Chaitannya mahatme" <chaitannya@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi folks,

I am planning to work in the kernel debugging process. 
My machine configs are
CPU: Intel dual core.
OS: OpenSuse 11.2

I have done the following things.

1. downloaded Linux kernel2.6.15
2. Download kgdb 2.6.15
3. Extracted kernel applied the kgdb patch.
4. Compiled bzImage.
5. Installed qemu. Created an image qemu.img using the qemu-img command.

I thought all is set well, since I didn't get any errors until this point.
When I ran qemu -s -kernel bzImage qemu.img, it started a qemu terminal. Showed the version of the linux and a message, booting linux. After that there is nothing. I haven't used any bootloader, but I feel with this command the kernel should boot without bootloader. 

How do I figure out what went wrong

Cheers !!!
Chaitannya

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