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Metal is a research project on "bare metal" software engineering.
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Improve debugability of GRUB2 images #129

Open pedrolamarao opened 2 years ago

pedrolamarao commented 2 years ago

Currently, we use a GRUB2 "standalone image" for system tests. It may be that this image is incorrectly generated: for example, modules may be installed or configured incorrectly in the image. There must be a way to debug this by direct inspection of the internal structure. Alternatively, there may be a different kind of image we can use which has this property.

pedrolamarao commented 2 years ago

The obvious alternativa is to build disk images but that would require tools unavailable in Windows.

pedrolamarao commented 2 years ago

Let us write a FAT32 support library for the JVM.

pedrolamarao commented 2 years ago

This will be required for UEFI anyway.