[coreboot] Can WinDbg debug Windows graphic driver?

Patrick Georgi patrick at georgi-clan.de
Thu Jan 24 23:09:54 CET 2013


Am 2013-01-24 11:26, schrieb WANG Siyuan:
> Hi, everyone
> My coreboot can boot Windows 7 with VGA driver but cannot boot 
> Windows
> 7 with AMD driver. The monitor is black but system is still alive.
> I can connect it by Remote Desktop. There is no dump files generated.
> I try to use WinDbg to debug. Now, I know how to debug a process and
> setup a server-client environment, But how to debug Graphic Driver
> without source code?
In my cases, the problem usually showed by not booting into anything 
useful. Since you have remote desktop, consider checking the event log.

I collected some information on how to setup debuggable Windows install 
media on http://www.coreboot.org/Debugging#Windows_7_USB - install media 
has different characteristics, which might help with tracking down the 
issue - or not.

For using WinDbg itself there are various blogs out there detailling 
how to use it. Feel free to add links to useful articles to the above 
document.


Patrick



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