Re: Fwd: boot/i386/pc/startup_raw.S:115: Error: attempt to move .org backwards

["Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>]

On 21.11.2011 23:42, Jeff Chua wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Jeff Chua<jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> 2011/11/18 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko<phcoder@gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Couly you try to find out the exact revision?
>> Vladimir, the source that works for is at rev 3586.
>>
>>> It doesn't make any sense since there files modified since Nov 14 are
>>> always compiled as 32-bit
>> I checked further. When I ran the compiled 64-bit grub-install on an
>> SD card, the SD booted fine. The same grub-install doesn't work my
>> /dev/sda.
> I zeroed into this problem and it's repeatable. It's the partition
> table + reiserfs. Works fine except when the disk partition contains 2 or more
> physical partitions and an extended partitions.
>

> Use fdisk to create the following partitions:
>
> 1) create physical partition 1. 10MB
> 2) create physical partition 2. 10MB
> 3) create extended partition using the remaining space
> 4) create logical partition 5 using the remaining space
> 5) mkreiserfs on partition 5, mount and grub2 on it
> 6) reboot and it hangs
>
That's pretty weird since no recent changes to reiserfs or msdos part 
but I can attempt to recreate. Could you perhaps try to bisect to get 
exact faulting revision? Your range spans 20 intensive commits. 
Bisecting it is at most 5 attempts but will simplify the debugging greately.
> Works if:
> 1) Partition 1 removed or
> 2) use non-reiserfs for partition 5
>
> Here's my partitions ...
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 274.9 GB, 274877906944 bytes
>     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1            2048       22527       10240   83  Linux
> /dev/sda2           22528       43007       10240   83  Linux
> /dev/sda3           43008   536870911   268413952    5  Extended
> /dev/sda5           45056   536870911   268412928   83  Linux
>
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
>
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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko