Re: Decompressing error on latest rev. of svn?

[Robert Millan]

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 05:54:27PM +0800, y.volta wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>     i check-out the latest revsion, and confiure it using all default 
> settings, but i failed to get the core.img to run.
> by using the bochdbg, i get to know the decompress with sth. wrong, when  i 
> jump to the grub_main(), the 
> debug screen shows me "CPU_LOOP 1", the asm code is: "int 0xe8". - i tried 
> both lzo and lzma mode.
> (i noticed that, when using lzo mode, after "call lzo1x_decompress", the eax 
> = -8)
>    i tried the rev.1699 in the same build evn, things are OK.
> 
>    is there something wrong i've made? any suggestion?

I don't recall that GRUB 2 has ever worked well in Bochs.  Not sure if it's a
GRUB bug or a Bochs bug.  Anyway, if you can trace it down, this would be
helpful for others.

Can you determine the precise change that broke it between r1699 and HEAD?

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