Re: debugging problem GRUB EFI boot

[Andrey Borzenkov]

В Sun, 9 Mar 2014 03:49:01 +0000
"Hebenstreit, Michael" <address@hidden> пишет:

> Hello everyone
> 
> Trying to run RH7 (prerelease) on a UEFI platform I'm running into the 
> problem that GRUB loads the OS from HD into memory (grub debug reports file 
> system close), but for some reasons the subsequent call to the kernel entry 
> point fails. In some cases the system reboots, in other it simply hangs.
> 
> Unfortunately our debug tools are Microsoft based, which creates a problem 
> here and raises these 2 questions:
> 
> 
> a)      Is there any chance to get MS PDB debug information out of the build 
> process for grubx64.efi?
> 

You may try http://dsource.org/projects/cv2pdb which apparently can
convert DWARF to PDB.

> b)      Has anyone tried compiling Grub - specifically the grubx64.efi file - 
> using MS Visual C?
> 

I doubt it. Code is rather dependent on GCC (and gmake).

> Please send an answer directly as I'm not member of the list
> Thanks for any pointers and help
> Happy hacking
> Michael
> 
> 
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