Method and apparatus for booting to debug in portable terminal

摘要

A booting method and an apparatus thereof for debugging in a portable terminal are provided. The method includes, when a booting event occurs, stacking a boot loader in a preset boot loader region of a Random Access Memory (RAM), and executing, and stacking an Operating System (OS) in a preset OS region of the RAM, wherein the boot loader region and the OS region of the RAM are set such that they do not overlap each other.

主权项

1. A booting method for debugging in a portable terminal, the method comprising:
when a booting event occurs, stacking a boot loader in a preset boot loader region of a Random Access Memory (RAM), and executing the same; stacking an Operating System (OS) in a preset OS region of the RAM; and if an OS error occurs, dumping data stored in advance in the OS region using the boot loader before the stacking of the OS in the preset OS region, wherein the boot loader region and the OS region of the RAM are set such that the boot loader region and the OS region do not overlap each other, and wherein the dumping of the data stored in the OS region comprises identifying, by the portable terminal, dump data, and transferring, by the portable terminal, the identified dump data to a computer connected to the portable terminal via a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connection.