From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1HoDHL-0000Hv-Ci for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 May 2007 02:46:31 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HoDHJ-0000HT-Un for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 May 2007 02:46:29 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HoDHI-0000Dt-5u for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 May 2007 02:46:29 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HoDHH-0000Dk-UE for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 May 2007 02:46:27 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HoD9J-0000ZB-IN for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 May 2007 02:38:13 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=aragorn) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HoD9E-0005aO-GQ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 May 2007 08:38:09 +0200 Received: from rmh by aragorn with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HoDB1-00064r-Lz for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 May 2007 08:39:59 +0200 Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 08:39:59 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20070516063959.GD22567@aragorn> References: <8c0c43de0705151747i243e0detd42c2367523b5058@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8c0c43de0705151747i243e0detd42c2367523b5058@mail.gmail.com> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Microsoft discourages use of Outlook. X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: ls and xfs = unhandled exception / reset X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 06:46:30 -0000 On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 08:47:03PM -0400, Alex Roman wrote: > Hello, > > I've got a linux system with the / partition as xfs (and no /boot > partition, blame kUbuntu's installer for that :)). I wanted to try to > boot the system from a grub2 floppy I made (so I can still boot my > system, no worries). > > I do: > insmod ls > insmod pc > insmod xfs > > Then if I do: > ls (hd0,1) -- my xfs partition > > ... the system just resets. > > I verified that if I insmod ext2 and ls on an ext3 partition, it will > work as expected and not reset my PC. Also, if I ls on the xfs > partition, without the xfs module loaded, GRUB will just print > Filesystem type unknown, but won't reset. > > Given that I'll also be working on adding CD-ROM boot support to GRUB > as part of GSoC, I figure this would be a great opportunity to start > fixing some bugs to get familiar with the code. > > Now, I've no idea how to debug this issue, how to get a debugging log, > etc... Could anyone please point me at the right document to read or > give me some advice how I could start working on this? See: http://grub.enbug.org/HowToDebug -- Robert Millan My spam trap is honeypot@aybabtu.com. Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list.