>>>>> Brian Brunswick writes:
BB> This builds a totally wrong stage1, with no warning at all. Code
BB> offsets wrong etc relative to downloaded binary versions. I would
BB> suggest putting in something to prevent this trap!
If you can suggest a rough outline for a configure test of these bugs,
then I'd be happy to write the test. I've tried to do this for other
binutils bugs, but I just don't have access to all the older binutils.
BB> When trying to use a stage1.5, I can't even get it to work at
BB> all, which I interpret as failure to read stage2, perhaps for the
BB> same reason as stage2 fails to read the menu.lst.
Hrm. I've seen things like this on some machines, but I've been
unable to figure out what causes it.
BB> One thing thats really hindering is its silence. Surely it would
BB> be worth having each stage at least announce itself as running,
BB> so one can see whats going go. At least a Grub 1 1.5 2.. type of
BB> output. And some kind of message about the menu file.
That's a good suggestion.
BB> But anyway, does anyone have any hints as to what the problem
BB> might be, before I dive into instrumenting stage2/stage1.5 and
BB> find out whats really going on?
You can also try using stage2_debug (--enable-debug), which adds some
instrumentation. I didn't write it, and haven't really used it
before, so I can't say how useful it would be.
Good luck,
[Sorry I'm so terse... there are personal reasons preventing me from
spending much time on Grub for the next two weeks.]
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