Re: Debug grub scripts without rebooting into grub shell.

[Hongyi Zhao]

On Sun, Jul 9, 2023 at 2:33 PM Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jul 9, 2023 at 1:13 PM Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 09.07.2023 03:21, Hongyi Zhao wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jul 8, 2023 at 9:53 PM Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com> 
> > > wrote:
> > >>
> > >> On 08.07.2023 14:58, Hongyi Zhao wrote:
> > >>> Hi here,
> > >>>
> > >>> Are there some convenient methods to debug grub scripts without
> > >>> rebooting into grub shell?
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> You may try grub-emu which emulates grub.
> > >
> > > I tried, but it seems that grub-emu doesn't meet my requirement as
> > > described below.
> > >
> > > I want to debug the grubx64.efi created by the following command:
> > >
> >
> > If you want to debug grubx64.efi, then you of course need to load it
> > either on real hardware or in VM. But you can debug scripts used by
> > grubx64.efi using grub-emu by setting up suitable simulated environment.
> > There are clear limitations (scripts cannot load and start any kernel).
>
> Then, how to access the real hard disk devices and partitions? I can
> only see the following devices via grub-emu:
>
> grub> ls
> (proc) (host)

Another question: How to enable tab completion in grub-emu for
variables/functions etc.?

> Best,
> Zhao
>
> > > $ grub-mkstandalone -O x86_64-efi -o grubx64.efi --modules='lvm fat
> > > ntfs part_msdos part_gpt ext2 btrfs probe regexp search configfile'
> > > boot/grub/grub.cfg=./grub.cfg
> > >
> > > The content of the ./grub.cfg is as follows:
> > >
> > > $ egrep -v '^[ ]*(#|$)' grub.cfg
> > > regexp -s __cmdpath_efi '^\(([^,]+)' "$cmdpath"
> > > export __cmdpath_efi
> > > for file in ($__cmdpath_efi,*)/multibootusb.git/grub.cfg; do
> > >    if regexp -s __root '^(\([^*]+\))' "$file"; then
> > >      set __prefix=$__root/multibootusb.git
> > >      export __root
> > >      export __prefix
> > >      configfile $__prefix/grub.cfg
> > >      break
> > >    fi
> > > done
> > >
> > > The files' layout is as follows:
> > >
> > > $ tree .
> > > .
> > > ├── grub.cfg
> > > ├── grub-mkstandalone.sh
> > > ├── grubx64.efi
> > > └── iso
> > >      ├── deepin-desktop-community-23-Beta-amd64.iso
> > >      ├── rescatux-0.74.iso
> > >      ├── supergrub2-2.06s1-beta2-multiarch-CD.iso
> > >      ├── systemrescue-10.01-amd64.iso
> > >      ├── ubuntu-23.04-desktop-amd64.iso
> > >      └── ubuntukylin-23.04-desktop-amd64.iso
> > >
> > > 1 directory, 9 files
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Zhao