linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found...

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Message-ID: <46A9753A.1010206@zytor.com>
Date:	Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:31:54 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	bbpetkov@...oo.de
CC:	Xudong Guan <xudong.guan@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found...

Borislav Petkov wrote:
>>
>> The absolute best would be if we could replicate this in simulation
>> (Bochs or Qemu); this would make it very simple to debug.  Would you be
>> willing to try to do that?
> sure, will do, however i'll be busy at work/travelling tomorrow but as soon as i
> get home i'll whip up my qemu and run the kernel in question in it. However,
>  Xudong said that grub 0.97 boots just fine on his machine and i think it'll be
>  better to debug this right on the bare hardware (i.e. my laptop) ...?
>  Suggestions ?

If we can't reproduce the problem in simulation, that itself will tell
us something very important.  If we *can* reproduce it in simulation, it
will be vastly easier to debug.

	-hpa

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