From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: bbpetkov@yahoo.de
Cc: Xudong Guan <xudong.guan@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found...
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:12:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46A8E3F9.5070809@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070726163053.GA4570@gollum.tnic>
Borislav Petkov wrote:
>
>> What distro/version of grub are you running?
> Debian unstable
>> I'm wondering if there are
>> some old version of grub out there which did the "load four sectors"
>> way-anciently-obsolete crap; the other possibility that comes to mind is
>> setting up the stack in an invalid manner.
> grub version:
>
> [boris@gollum:18:17:27:-> apt-cache show grub
> Package: grub
> Priority: optional
> Section: admin
> Installed-Size: 708
> Maintainer: Grub Maintainers <pkg-grub-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
> Architecture: i386
> Version: 0.97-29
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.5-5), libncurses5 (>= 5.4-5)
> Suggests: grub-doc, mdadm
> Filename: pool/main/g/grub/grub_0.97-29_i386.deb
> Size: 366884
> MD5sum: 2da7a5942db06eaba046dff4615bcce9
> SHA1: 7f4da793da209d011ce94fceebaebe0e5f08790f
> SHA256: 2596782c08f1f7365e9935f687fef74c67d8702503188f22448db9f0ac98e18e
> Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
> ...
This concerns me deeply. This is a current version of Grub which
shouldn't have any silly 8K limitations. Yet it appears to have a
similar pathology over the ancient version Xudong just described.
The absolute best would be if we could replicate this in simulation
(Bochs or Qemu); this would make it very simple to debug. Would you be
willing to try to do that?
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-26 18:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-24 11:26 2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found Borislav Petkov
2007-07-26 15:08 ` Xudong Guan
2007-07-26 15:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-26 15:26 ` Xudong Guan
2007-07-26 15:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <46A8C7BA.3040008@zytor.com>
[not found] ` <20070726162439.GA13387@xguan-laptop>
[not found] ` <46A8CB3F.7040207@zytor.com>
[not found] ` <20070726171609.GA16236@xguan-laptop>
2007-07-26 17:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-26 16:30 ` Borislav Petkov
2007-07-26 16:36 ` Xudong Guan
2007-07-26 16:59 ` Borislav Petkov
2007-07-26 17:09 ` Xudong Guan
2007-07-26 18:12 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-07-27 1:36 ` Borislav Petkov
2007-07-27 4:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-27 15:51 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-07-29 8:51 ` Borislav Petkov
2007-07-29 9:24 ` Xudong Guan
2007-07-29 10:37 ` Borislav Petkov
2007-07-29 13:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-29 19:15 ` Borislav Petkov
2007-07-30 14:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-30 18:53 ` Borislav Petkov
2007-07-30 20:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-08-01 4:38 ` Borislav Petkov
2007-08-01 12:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-08-01 14:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-08-02 5:13 ` 2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found... SOLVED! Borislav Petkov
2007-08-02 17:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
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