[00:14] <cjwatson> xivulon1: you can't insmod in grub-emu - modules are either built-in or not available
[00:14] <xivulon1> ah
[00:14] <xivulon1> so do I need to compile my own grub-emu?
[00:16] <cjwatson> grub-emu already has ntfs built-in
[00:24] <xivulon1> ops, my mistake was loopmounting the xp image which is a full disk image
[00:36] <xivulon1> can I pass an offset to the loopback command?
[00:36] <xivulon1> When mounting with -p I can see the partition table but ls (loop0,1) -> Unknown filesystem
[00:45] <xivulon1> by the way I also have an "invalid arch independent ELF magic" when I launch grub-emu
[00:51] <cjwatson> yes, everyone does
[00:51] <cjwatson> I don't know the answer to your loopback question I'm afraid
[00:51] <cjwatson> you could fake something up with device-mapper
[00:51] <cjwatson> or even losetup
[00:51] <cjwatson> (--offset, --sizelimit)
[00:52] <cjwatson> no reason you can't pass an actual device to the loopback command :)
[00:58] <xivulon1> ah yes I can use (host), didn't notice that before
[00:58] <xivulon1> so I can access (loop0)/boot from grub-emu :-(
[01:00] <xivulon1> another victory for grub2
[01:02] <xivulon1> cjwatson did you manage to reproduce?
[01:04]  * xivulon1 to bed
[02:49] <lamalex> cjwatson: 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 situation
[09:04] <davmor2> cjwatson: 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?
[09:35] <xivulon> morning, so cjwatson, with grub-emu I can access (loop0)/boot, while booting "normally" I can't (total jam)
[09:36] <xivulon> booting normally I can access all dirs except /boot
[09:39] <xivulon> I will see if I can attach gdb to kvm and get something out of that tonight
[09:40] <xivulon> davmor2, did you try any wubi installation recently? Does it work for you?
[09:41] <davmor2> xivulon: No mostly been concentrating on make other os show up in grub2
[09:41] <davmor2> I can run one today and have a look
[09:41] <xivulon> that would help thanks, what I am experiencing is a grub freeze after ubiquity installation
[09:42] <davmor2> xivulon: np's be abour 40 minutes ish
[09:43] <xivulon> take your time
[09:45] <xivulon> cjwatson, fyi, I cheated, I mounted the XP disk image via losetup   kpartx
[09:46] <xivulon> in the host , and then used grub-emu to access the karmic image therein
[09:46] <xivulon> this means that the ntfs driver used is the host one
[09:46] <xivulon> which probably means the issue is still with the grub ntfs driver
[12:59] <davmor2> oem is still broken :(  Instead of logining into oem user it goes straight to oem enduser setup.
[19:46]  * cjwatson tries to remember what's responsible for installing lupin-support
[19:48] <cjwatson> oh, partman-auto-loop, right
[20:40] <xivulon> hi cjwatson, saw your email
[20:40] <xivulon> did you manage to find out about the grub ntfs/boot problem?
[20:46] <cjwatson> xivulon: well, that's what I thought might be due to having an outdated grub as wubildr
[20:46] <cjwatson> xivulon: beta2 could easily be from before the fix I applied for that very problem
[20:47] <cjwatson> xivulon: the menu doesn't say precisely enough, but I thought I'd fixed that in 1.97~beta2-2ubuntu2
[20:47] <cjwatson> xivulon: the fact that it works for you in grub-emu kind of supports the idea that it might just be due to an old wubildr
[20:48] <cjwatson> when I get round to upgrading wubildr locally, I'll be able to tell
[20:48] <xivulon> cjwatson, I run an uptodate version of grub
[20:48] <cjwatson> in that case I didn't manage to find anything out because I haven't got that far
[20:48] <xivulon> You raised a good point about automating the build process though
[20:49] <cjwatson> I'll do some more on it tomorrow morning and see what I can unearth
[20:51] <xivulon> cjwatson as mentioned earlier on today, I think it is still the ntfs drive
[20:54] <xivulon> I will have another go later on (still in the office)