Igor Izyumin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday 31 July 2002 01:26 pm, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > Yep, I'd really like we could fix it. I've posted a request for > > testing to the developers of our office, maybe one of them can > > reproduce and then it would be real easy for me to debug & fix. > > How does one go about debugging a boot floppy? None of the
Well at initial debugging stage I did it myself with a special network bootable version of the stage1 (using grub network boot feature with tftp transfers); now that it's almost stable when I have trouble I try to add some logging message to help me understand the origin of the problem, try to fix, test again, etc. For that problem, since I don't know where the origin of the problem could be, it's almost impossible to blindly put some logging messages, ask you to test, retry, etc.. > virtual terminals give you access to a console. Is there some Yep, I don't have enough space on the floppy to put a shell, neither any useful tool to edit files etc.. > command to switch the installer into debug mode? There are no > interesting messages on any of the log screens. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
