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Hi All: I've been doing lots of experimentation with calling grub-setup from Windows to prepare the bootsector of a FAT32 volume. I'm finding that for some reason, the bootcode doesn't actually get written to the PBR even though grub-setup thinks the write has succeeded. To achieve this test i'm doing the following: 1) Create the FAT32 partition using diskpart 2) mkdir -p /boot/grub 3) Drop a boot.img and core.img in /boot/grub taken from a Linux build (they're in ELF's then). 4) grub-setup.exe --verbose --force -d /cygdrive/e/boot/grub /dev/sdb1 If I dd the partition bootsector before starting and afterward to compare, it's not changing at all. (dd if=/dev/sdb of=bootsect bs=512 skip=128 count=1) Now conversely if I use dd to try to place the contents of a 512 byte file in that place, it works fine. (dd if=bootsect of=/dev/sdb bs=512 seek=128 count=1) I've tried to compare the code that dd and grub-setup both use, and even modified the open mode that grub-setup uses, but still get the same results. If I run grub-setup under strace, a Windows error actually shows up, which makes me think this is actually a bug in cygwin1.dll. Here's the relevant output from strace on grub-setup as it's opening the drive, seeking and attempting to write it: 206 13511691 [main] grub-setup 2608 open: open (/dev/sdb, 0x10202) 52 13511743 [main] grub-setup 2608 normalize_posix_path: src /dev/sdb 52 13511795 [main] grub-setup 2608 normalize_posix_path: /dev/sdb = normalize_posix_path (/dev/sdb) 53 13511848 [main] grub-setup 2608 mount_info::conv_to_win32_path: conv_to_win32_path (/dev/sdb) 58 13511906 [main] grub-setup 2608 mount_info::conv_to_win32_path: src_path /dev/sdb, dst \Device\Harddisk1\Partition0, flags 0x2, rc 0 58 13511964 [main] grub-setup 2608 build_fh_pc: fh 0x612424E4 54 13512018 [main] grub-setup 2608 fhandler_base::open: (\Device\Harddisk1\Partition0, 0x10002) 76 13512094 [main] grub-setup 2608 fhandler_base::set_flags: flags 0x10002, supplied_bin 0x10000 58 13512152 [main] grub-setup 2608 fhandler_base::set_flags: O_TEXT/O_BINARY set in flags 0x10000 52 13512204 [main] grub-setup 2608 fhandler_base::set_flags: filemode set to binary 52 13512256 [main] grub-setup 2608 fhandler_base::open: 0 = NtCreateFile (0x224, C0100000, \Device\Harddisk1\Partition0, io, NULL, 0, 7, 1, 4020, NULL, 0) 53 13512309 [main] grub-setup 2608 fhandler_base::open: 1 = fhandler_base::open (\Device\Harddisk1\Partition0, 0x10002) 193 13512502 [main] grub-setup 2608 fhandler_dev_floppy::get_drive_info: disk geometry: (780 cyl)*(64 trk)*(63 sec)*(512 bps) 58 13512560 [main] grub-setup 2608 fhandler_dev_floppy::get_drive_info: partition info: offset 0 length 1610612736 53 13512613 [main] grub-setup 2608 fhandler_dev_floppy::get_drive_info: drive size: 1610612736 52 13512665 [main] grub-setup 2608 open: 4 = open (/dev/sdb, 0x10202) 106 13512771 [main] grub-setup 2608 lseek64: 65536 = lseek (4, 65536, 0) 52 13512823 [main] grub-setup 2608 writev: writev (4, 0x22C784, 1) 52 13512875 [main] grub-setup 2608 fhandler_base::write: binary write 287 13513162 [main] grub-setup 2608 fhandler_dev_floppy::write_file: 1 (err 0) = WriteFile (548, 13541288, write 512, written 512, 0) 67 13513229 [main] grub-setup 2608 writev: 512 = write (4, 0x22C784, 1), errno 2 66 13513295 [main] grub-setup 2608 seterrno_from_win_error: /netrel/src/cygwin-snapshot-20101229-1/winsup/cygwin/fhandler.cc:1591 windows error 1 60 13513355 [main] grub-setup 2608 geterrno_from_win_error: windows error 1 == errno 54 If I compare that to what DD is doing: 2131 391915 [main] dd 3400 open: 3 = open (/dev/sdb, 0x10202) 1183 393098 [main] dd 3400 dtable::dup3: dup3 (3, 1, 0x0) 1337 394435 [main] dd 3400 build_fh_pc: fh 0x61241884 1187 395622 [main] dd 3400 fhandler_base::dup: in fhandler_base dup 1174 396796 [main] dd 3400 dtable::dup_worker: duped '/dev/sdb' old 0x154, new 0x160 1342 398138 [main] dd 3400 dtable::dup3: newfh->io_handle 0x160, oldfh->io_handle 0x154, new win32_name 0x61242214, old win32_name 0x6124225C 1682 399820 [main] dd 3400 close: close (1) 1271 401091 [main] dd 3400 fhandler_base::close: closing '' handle 0x258 1417 402508 [main] dd 3400 close: 0 = close (1) 1157 403665 [main] dd 3400 dtable::dup3: 1 = dup3 (3, 1, 0x0) 1073 404738 [main] dd 3400 close: close (3) 1475 406213 [main] dd 3400 fhandler_base::close: closing '/dev/sdb' handle 0x154 1620 407833 [main] dd 3400 close: 0 = close (3) 1291 409124 [main] dd 3400 __set_errno: virtual int fhandler_base::ftruncate(_off64_t, bool):1558 val 22 2224 411348 [main] dd 3400 ftruncate64: -1 = ftruncate (1, 65536) 1379 412727 [main] dd 3400 fhandler_dev_raw::fstat: here 1214 413941 [main] dd 3400 fhandler_base::fstat: here 1162 415103 [main] dd 3400 time: 1294954129 = time (0) 945 416048 [main] dd 3400 fstat64: 0 = fstat (1, 0x22CC48) 673 416721 [main] dd 3400 lseek64: 65536 = lseek (1, 65536, 1) 944 417665 [main] dd 3400 readv: readv (0, 0x22CB94, 1) blocking, sigcatchers 2 1801 419466 [main] dd 3400 fhandler_base::read: returning 512, binary mode 1357 420823 [main] dd 3400 readv: 512 = readv (0, 0x22CB94, 1), errno 0 1535 422358 [main] dd 3400 fhandler_base::write: binary write 1468 423826 [main] dd 3400 fhandler_dev_floppy::write_file: 1 (err 0) = WriteFile (352, 9437184, write 512, written 512, 0) I'm not sure why internally cygwin decided to use writev() for grub-setup and write() for writing the data out. In both cases, dd and grub-setup both use write() in their code. I've already tried the latest snapshot of cygwin1.dll (2011-12-29 at this time), and i'm getting the same results as with the current stable version. Any ideas? -- *Mario Limonciello* Linux Engineer *Dell* | OS Engineering
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