Re: ufs2 - troubles

[Yoshinori Okuji]

 --- Robert Millan <address@hidden> wrote:
> I suggest you use GNU/Linux (if you have it at hand) for your tests, you
> should
> be able to access UFS2 filesystems from the GRUB shell then.

...or, use a disk image file. Personally I prefer this to using real hardware
when debugging GRUB. Because GRUB never corrupt your hardware and you don't
need to execute the grub shell as the superuser.

It is easy to make a floppy image as a file (e.g. dd and mkfs), but it might be
difficult to make a hard disk image because of partitioning. I myself have a
modified version of fdisk for this purpose, and I sometimes use user-mode-linux
or bochs.

> [1] http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grub/2003-07/msg00067.html
>     (This patch is waiting for my copyright papers to be applied.)

BTW, Robert, did you get a template of a request for your copyright assignment?
I asked the account maintainers to send it to you, but I haven't heard of it.

Okuji