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?
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