Ľubomír Rintel has written a detailed and very helpful debugging guide for grub2. The guide covers how to debug with gdb using emulators such as QEMU and Bochs as well as traditional serial line debugging using a null-modem.
The tricky part is to be able to pull in the debug and symbol files for dynamically loaded modules, however this has been solved by Ľubomír with a gdb and perl script.
The guide gives some useful tricks which can be used not just with grub2 but other boot loaders too. It's well worth a look just to learn some useful gdb hacks.
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