Can't use GDB to debug gnumach

[Karim Allah Ahmed]

I'm currently trying to debug gnumach running on Qemu with GDB and i did the following

>qemu -s /path/to/image/hurd.img
(Though QEMU docs said that : "In order to use gdb, launch qemu with the ’-s’ option. It will wait for a gdb connection" , it didn't wait it simply launced grub and gave me the boot menu)

then i did
>gdb -s /path/to/gnumach/gnumach
>(gdb) target remote localhost:1234
>Remote debugging using localhost:1234
>0x00008789 in ?? ()
>(gdb) break c_boot_entry
>Breakpoint 1 at 0x100a90: file ../i386/i386at/model_dep.c, line 510.

(then i choosed "hurd" in the grub boot menu it loads gnumach and then breaks at this break point.)

>(gdb) break i386at_init
>Breakpoint 2 at 0x100790: file ../i386/i386at/model_dep.c, line 322.
>(gdb) continue
>Continuing.

(here the gnumach simply restarts giving me back the boot loader , as if it didn't even breaks at the second break point .. and continue simply blocks )

I can't also do "step" because it gives me "Cannot find bounds of current function"

[Note , i'm debugging gnumach because it crashes and reboots after doing some modifications in the initialization phase .. and kdb isn't yet initialized]x