From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765692AbXG0EcQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:32:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751800AbXG0EcA (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:32:00 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:60697 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751653AbXG0Eb7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:31:59 -0400 Message-ID: <46A9753A.1010206@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:31:54 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: bbpetkov@yahoo.de CC: Xudong Guan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found... References: <20070724112618.GA4431@gollum.tnic> <20070726150854.GA7034@xguan-laptop> <46A8BB6C.6050903@zytor.com> <20070726163053.GA4570@gollum.tnic> <46A8E3F9.5070809@zytor.com> <20070727013615.GC4570@gollum.tnic> In-Reply-To: <20070727013615.GC4570@gollum.tnic> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Borislav Petkov wrote: >> >> 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? > sure, will do, however i'll be busy at work/travelling tomorrow but as soon as i > get home i'll whip up my qemu and run the kernel in question in it. However, > Xudong said that grub 0.97 boots just fine on his machine and i think it'll be > better to debug this right on the bare hardware (i.e. my laptop) ...? > Suggestions ? If we can't reproduce the problem in simulation, that itself will tell us something very important. If we *can* reproduce it in simulation, it will be vastly easier to debug. -hpa