Debugging lsass.exe on Win7

It’s been a while since I had to debug lsass.exe during the startup phase
and I’m running into a problem when the debugger breaks in.

I’ve added lsass.exe to the *Image File Execution Options registry key and
have set the Debugger value to ‘ntsd -d’. When I’ve attached kd and am
waiting for the OS to boot, kd breaks in and prompts me with the following:
Break, or Ignore (bi)?

I get prompted once more after continuing. The problem is that Windows never
moves on past this point. It’s just sitting there waiting for something
(blank screen), so I assume I’m missing something.
*

Bah, turns out I forgot to add ntsd.exe to the PATH.

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Soren Dreijer wrote:

> It’s been a while since I had to debug lsass.exe during the startup phase
> and I’m running into a problem when the debugger breaks in.
>
> I’ve added lsass.exe to the *Image File Execution Options registry key and
> have set the Debugger value to ‘ntsd -d’. When I’ve attached kd and am
> waiting for the OS to boot, kd breaks in and prompts me with the following:
> Break, or Ignore (bi)?
>
> I get prompted once more after continuing. The problem is that Windows
> never moves on past this point. It’s just sitting there waiting for
> something (blank screen), so I assume I’m missing something.
> *