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From: Chris Murphy <lists@colorremedies.com>
To: Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack@inwind.it>
Cc: Chris Murphy <lists@colorremedies.com>,
	Btrfs BTRFS <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: GRUB bug with Btrfs multiple devices
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2019 09:38:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJCQCtQSpHLzb8qDDh8eMidoyC5OwyD1aDn=GT0PxYcAoJFmXw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7aed9b06-b6e9-abef-0241-f542ffffdfc7@inwind.it>

On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 1:12 AM Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack@inwind.it> wrote:
>
> On 29/11/2019 22.17, Chris Murphy wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 12:54 PM Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack@inwind.it> wrote:
> >> Could you be so kindly to share the picture of the loading of the kernel/initramdisk ? Something like:
> >>
> >> grub> set debug=all
> >> grub> initrd /boot/initrd....
> >>
> >> I hope that the errors come quickly. I don't think that we need the pictuers of all the download. It would be sufficient the pictures until the first (or better second) error....
> >
> > I paged through it for minutes, hundreds of pages and never found any
> > errors. But these are the first pages. This might actually be some
> > kind of search, not load of the kernel, because I pressed tab to
> > autocomplete. But it didn't autocomplete it immediately started
> > spitting out debug pages.
> >
> > https://photos.app.goo.gl/kpa7dJ9spAy29yj26
> >
> > Is it possible to redirect grub debug output to a FAT file?
>
> It is possible to redirect to a serial console ..
> Did the machine has a serial port ?

USB and wired ethernet.

So far I'm unable to reproduce in a VM with 2 partitions used for 2
device Btrfs. It might be a multi-layer bug where the 1st bug must
happen before the 2nd one has a chance of being revealed. The 1st bug
being the issue of phantom devices, which *are* present when the Btrfs
is a single device volume, but none of the errors show up in the
GRUB/pre-boot environment until the 2nd device was added (and new
kernel installed).

It's too bad GRUB doesn't have a debug option to write a file to a FAT
file system. The btrfs debug output is extremely long.


-- 
Chris Murphy

  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-30 16:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-26  4:05 GRUB bug with Btrfs multiple devices Chris Murphy
2019-11-26 21:11 ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2019-11-26 23:53   ` Chris Murphy
2019-11-27  1:35     ` Chris Murphy
2019-11-27  6:07       ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2019-11-28  0:42         ` Chris Murphy
2019-11-28 17:58           ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2019-11-28 20:05             ` Chris Murphy
2019-11-28 21:57               ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2019-11-29 17:57                 ` Chris Murphy
2019-11-29 19:54                   ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2019-11-29 21:17                     ` Chris Murphy
2019-11-30  7:33                       ` Andrei Borzenkov
2019-11-30  8:12                       ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2019-11-30 16:38                         ` Chris Murphy [this message]
2019-11-27  6:09     ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2019-11-29 20:50     ` Andrei Borzenkov
2019-11-29 21:11       ` Chris Murphy
2019-11-30  7:31         ` Andrei Borzenkov
2019-11-30 16:31           ` Chris Murphy
2019-11-30 17:02             ` Andrei Borzenkov
2019-11-30 17:14               ` Chris Murphy
2019-11-30 17:34                 ` Chris Murphy

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