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cjwatsonxivulon1: you can't insmod in grub-emu - modules are either built-in or not available00:14
xivulon1ah00:14
xivulon1so do I need to compile my own grub-emu?00:14
cjwatsongrub-emu already has ntfs built-in00:16
xivulon1ops, my mistake was loopmounting the xp image which is a full disk image00:24
xivulon1can I pass an offset to the loopback command?00:36
xivulon1When mounting with -p I can see the partition table but ls (loop0,1) -> Unknown filesystem00:36
xivulon1by the way I also have an "invalid arch independent ELF magic" when I launch grub-emu00:45
cjwatsonyes, everyone does00:51
cjwatsonI don't know the answer to your loopback question I'm afraid00:51
cjwatsonyou could fake something up with device-mapper00:51
cjwatsonor even losetup00:51
cjwatson(--offset, --sizelimit)00:51
cjwatsonno reason you can't pass an actual device to the loopback command :)00:52
xivulon1ah yes I can use (host), didn't notice that before00:58
xivulon1so I can access (loop0)/boot from grub-emu :-(00:58
xivulon1another victory for grub201:00
xivulon1cjwatson did you manage to reproduce?01:02
* xivulon1 to bed01:04
lamalexcjwatson: evand asked me to assign copyright of my patch to Canonical, but I don't have the authority to do that. I have to check with my bosses at Jolicloud SAS who I initially wrote the path for. I emailed my boss, but I just wanted to let you guys know the situation02:49
davmor2cjwatson: morning I was having a think last night and what I wondered was would it help if I setup the vista system give you access to setup the bits for debuggin' run the install and tell you when it finish installing but left it in live mode so you could browse any and all logs at your convenience?09:04
xivulonmorning, so cjwatson, with grub-emu I can access (loop0)/boot, while booting "normally" I can't (total jam)09:35
xivulonbooting normally I can access all dirs except /boot09:36
xivulonI will see if I can attach gdb to kvm and get something out of that tonight09:39
xivulondavmor2, did you try any wubi installation recently? Does it work for you?09:40
davmor2xivulon: No mostly been concentrating on make other os show up in grub209:41
davmor2I can run one today and have a look09:41
xivulonthat would help thanks, what I am experiencing is a grub freeze after ubiquity installation09:41
davmor2xivulon: np's be abour 40 minutes ish09:42
xivulontake your time09:43
xivuloncjwatson, fyi, I cheated, I mounted the XP disk image via losetup   kpartx09:45
xivulonin the host , and then used grub-emu to access the karmic image therein09:46
xivulonthis means that the ntfs driver used is the host one09:46
xivulonwhich probably means the issue is still with the grub ntfs driver09:46
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davmor2oem is still broken :(  Instead of logining into oem user it goes straight to oem enduser setup.12:59
* cjwatson tries to remember what's responsible for installing lupin-support19:46
cjwatsonoh, partman-auto-loop, right19:48
xivulonhi cjwatson, saw your email20:40
xivulondid you manage to find out about the grub ntfs/boot problem?20:40
cjwatsonxivulon: well, that's what I thought might be due to having an outdated grub as wubildr20:46
cjwatsonxivulon: beta2 could easily be from before the fix I applied for that very problem20:46
cjwatsonxivulon: the menu doesn't say precisely enough, but I thought I'd fixed that in 1.97~beta2-2ubuntu220:47
cjwatsonxivulon: the fact that it works for you in grub-emu kind of supports the idea that it might just be due to an old wubildr20:47
cjwatsonwhen I get round to upgrading wubildr locally, I'll be able to tell20:48
xivuloncjwatson, I run an uptodate version of grub20:48
cjwatsonin that case I didn't manage to find anything out because I haven't got that far20:48
xivulonYou raised a good point about automating the build process though20:48
cjwatsonI'll do some more on it tomorrow morning and see what I can unearth20:49
xivuloncjwatson as mentioned earlier on today, I think it is still the ntfs drive20:51
xivulonI will have another go later on (still in the office)20:54
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