Bug#436943: another confirmation

[Robert Millan]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 05:06:15AM -0800, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 13:19 +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> --snip--
> > On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 02:14:55AM -0800, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> > > 
> > > Oddly, trying to do "ls (hd0,1)/" works just fine. Yet when running
> > "ls
> > > (hd0,1)/boot" gives that same "out of partition error", even
> > > though /boot is NOT on a separate partition.
> > 
> > Alex, what is your filesystem in (hd0,1)/ ?
> > 
> > Can you identify the problem if you do:
> > 
> >   set debug=all
> >   ls (hd0,1)/boot
> 
> The fs on hd0,1 is xfs. I just did an fsck on it and the fs itself is
> fine.
> 
> Since it's hard to paste a good amount of code that happens at boot,
> here's what I get when running grub-emu from the console with the above
> commands. I'll do a reboot later and verify that I get the same errors.
> If I see anything different on a regular boot I'll send in a follow-up
> email.
> 
> One thing that might be potentially useful, when just doing the ls
> without the debug=all, I actually get a little bit of output prior to
> the out of partition error. In this particular case the output is:

Ok.  There are two ways we can proceed.  Choose the one you prefer.  The
first is if you can reproduce this problem in a (preferrably small)
filesystem that doesn't contain any sensible output, and upload it
somewhere.

The second would be to continue debugging this via email (or alternatively, via
IRC).  The next step would be to run it in grub-emu and obtain a backtrace:

  break kern/disk.c:371
  run
  backtrace

Thanks

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Robert Millan

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