Bug#436943: another confirmation

[Robert Millan]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 06:54:52AM -0800, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 15:44 +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> --snip--
> > 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
> 
> I'll try creating a new filesystem tomorrow and see if I can still
> reproduce the problem. If not, we can continue this on IRC or Jabber. I
> want to get it fixed, but I'm afraid I really don't know much about
> grub2 so I'd need someone there with me while I'm troubleshooting.

Ok.  If you can't get that image, you can find me in #grub at freenode
(my nickname is 'nyu').

Btw, if you want to test filesystem in grub-emu, there's a "loopback"
command that will surely come in handy.

-- 
Robert Millan

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<DRM> What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak?
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