Re: debugging grub

[Yoshinori Okuji]

 --- Daniele Bellucci <address@hidden> wrote:
> how does a "grub developer" debug grub-stage2 (BTW of gdb) ?

This is my way. I make use of the grub shell as much as possible. It is the
fastest and most powerful way.

When I want to test the native version of GRUB, I often use Bochs.

When I want to test GRUB with a real machine, I mostly use Etherboot + nbgrub.
It's much faster than installing GRUB onto a disk.

> I've a little proposal too:
> yesterday night i hacked a little in Grub (just to understand its internal)
> and (for testing purpose) i've added some emacs like binding for cmdline:
> C-s [Set mark]
> C-w [move text starting from C-s to current position {or viceversa} in
> kill_buf]
> C-m [move forward a word]
> C-n [move backward a word]

They are not like Emacs at all.

> I've a patch for this but, before to submit, i would like to know if this is
> the right
> place for RFC like patches.

Yes, this is the right place.

Okuji