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* x86->x86 GRUB bootable image in OE?
@ 2009-09-28 20:21 Leon Woestenberg
  2009-09-28 21:06 ` Peter Chubb
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Leon Woestenberg @ 2009-09-28 20:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: openembedded-devel

Hello,


on x86 target support, I have some ideas how to create bootable disk
images from OE using GRUB (not using the post image command approach).

However, I suspect this will only work if we have GRUB on the host,
i.e. assume a x86 host, and have grub-native.

grub-native would be step one, but I am having a hard time getting the
staging to work.

In general, for staging host-native tools, do we use the "make
install" approach?


Regards,

Leon.



DESCRIPTION = "GRand Unified Bootloader"
HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/grub"
SECTION = "bootloaders"
PRIORITY = "optional"
RDEPENDS_${PN}-install = "diffutils"
PR = "r5"

SRC_URI = "ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-${PV}.tar.gz \
           file://automake-1.10.patch;patch=1 \
           file://menu.lst"

inherit autotools_stage native

CFLAGS += "-fno-stack-protector"

#do_install() {
#       oenote do_install
#       oenote DESTDIR=${D}
#       oe_runmake 'DESTDIR=${D}' install
#}

do_stage() {
        oenote do_stage
        oenote DESTDIR=${STAGING_DIR_HOST}
        oe_runmake 'DESTDIR=${STAGING_DIR_HOST}' install
}

#do_stage() {
#        oe_runmake 'DESTDIR=${STAGING_DIR_HOST}' install
#        install -m 0644 -D ${WORKDIR}/menu.lst ${}/boot/grub/menu.lst
#
#        # Copy stage1/1_5/2 files to /boot/grub
#        GRUB_TARGET_ARCH=$(echo ${TARGET_ARCH} | sed -e 's/.86/386/')
#        install -m 0744 -d ${STAGING_DIR_HOST}/boot/grub/
#        install -m 0644 \
#                ${D}/${libdir}/grub/${GRUB_TARGET_ARCH}${TARGET_VENDOR}/* \
#                ${STAGING_DIR_HOST}/boot/grub/
#}

PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-install ${PN}-eltorito"

FILES_${PN}-install = " \
        ${sbindir}/grub-install \
        ${sbindir}/grub-terminfo \
        ${sbindir}/grub-md5-crypt \
        ${bindir}/mbchk \
        ${libdir}/grub \
"
FILES_${PN}-eltorito = "/boot/grub/stage2_eltorito"
FILES_${PN} += "/boot"

COMPATIBLE_HOST = "i.86.*-linux"


-- 
Leon



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* Re: x86->x86 GRUB bootable image in OE?
  2009-09-28 20:21 x86->x86 GRUB bootable image in OE? Leon Woestenberg
@ 2009-09-28 21:06 ` Peter Chubb
  2009-09-28 21:49   ` Leon Woestenberg
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Peter Chubb @ 2009-09-28 21:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: openembedded-devel

>>>>> "Leon" == Leon Woestenberg <leon.woestenberg@gmail.com> writes:

Leon> Hello, on x86 target support, I have some ideas how to create
Leon> bootable disk images from OE using GRUB (not using the post
Leon> image command approach).

Leon> However, I suspect this will only work if we have GRUB on the
Leon> host, i.e. assume a x86 host, and have grub-native.

We tried this for our system.  You need to split grub into the
grub-installer part and the grub part, and the way that grub 0.97
works doesn't really fit nicely.  Grub 2 may be better.

We ended up switching to syslinux which works nicely cross-platform.

Peter C


--
Dr Peter Chubb		www.nicta.com.au    peter DOT chubb AT nicta.com.au
http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au           ERTOS within National ICT Australia



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* Re: x86->x86 GRUB bootable image in OE?
  2009-09-28 21:06 ` Peter Chubb
@ 2009-09-28 21:49   ` Leon Woestenberg
  2009-09-28 22:05     ` Peter Chubb
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Leon Woestenberg @ 2009-09-28 21:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: openembedded-devel

Hello Peter,

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Peter Chubb <peter.chubb@nicta.com.au> wrote:
>>>>>> "Leon" == Leon Woestenberg <leon.woestenberg@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Leon> Hello, on x86 target support, I have some ideas how to create
> Leon> bootable disk images from OE using GRUB (not using the post
> Leon> image command approach).
>
> Leon> However, I suspect this will only work if we have GRUB on the
> Leon> host, i.e. assume a x86 host, and have grub-native.
>
> We tried this for our system.  You need to split grub into the
> grub-installer part and the grub part, and the way that grub 0.97
> works doesn't really fit nicely.  Grub 2 may be better.
>
> We ended up switching to syslinux which works nicely cross-platform.
>

It's good to know I could always bail out if it isn't going to work.

I think I have got grub working outside OE for this, I just need to
get things into OE.

Do you maybe still have any recipe that at least stages grub for the host?

Regards,
-- 
Leon



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* Re: x86->x86 GRUB bootable image in OE?
  2009-09-28 21:49   ` Leon Woestenberg
@ 2009-09-28 22:05     ` Peter Chubb
  2009-09-28 22:36       ` Leon Woestenberg
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Peter Chubb @ 2009-09-28 22:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: openembedded-devel

>>>>> "Leon" == Leon Woestenberg <leon.woestenberg@gmail.com> writes:

Leon> Hello Peter, On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Peter Chubb
Leon> <peter.chubb@nicta.com.au> wrote:

Leon> Do you maybe still have any recipe that at least stages grub for
Leon> the host?

I have one at work --- I'll send it off when I get there.
--
Dr Peter Chubb		www.nicta.com.au    peter DOT chubb AT nicta.com.au
http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au           ERTOS within National ICT Australia



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* Re: x86->x86 GRUB bootable image in OE?
  2009-09-28 22:05     ` Peter Chubb
@ 2009-09-28 22:36       ` Leon Woestenberg
  2009-09-29  0:05         ` Peter Chubb
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Leon Woestenberg @ 2009-09-28 22:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: openembedded-devel

Hello Peter,

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:05 AM, Peter Chubb <peter.chubb@nicta.com.au> wrote:

> Leon> Do you maybe still have any recipe that at least stages grub for
> Leon> the host?
>
> I have one at work --- I'll send it off when I get there.
>
Tops.

I'll buy you a beer when I'm Down Under -- ...It's just, don't wait for that :-)

Regards,
-- 
Leon



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* Re: x86->x86 GRUB bootable image in OE?
  2009-09-28 22:36       ` Leon Woestenberg
@ 2009-09-29  0:05         ` Peter Chubb
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Peter Chubb @ 2009-09-29  0:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: openembedded-devel

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Here's the grub-native recipe.



We use it something like this, in a different recipe for building the
image:


HOST_ARCH may need tweaking.

GRUB=${STAGING_DIR}/${HOST_ARCH}-linux/usr/lib/grub/${HOST_ARCH}-pc

#Build the image
dd if=/dev/zero of="${IMAGE}" bs=1M count=$SZ

# Set up mtools
echo "drive c: file=\"$IMAGE\" partition=1" > mtoolsrc
export MTOOLSRC=mtoolsrc

# Create filesystem

mpartition -I c:
mpartition -c -t $CYLINDERS -h 16 -s 63 c:
mformat c:
mmd c:/boot
mmd c:/boot/grub

# Install grub
mcopy "${GRUB}/stage1" c:/boot/grub
mcopy "${GRUB}/stage2" c:/boot/grub
mcopy "${GRUB}/fat_stage1_5" c:/boot/grub

echo "(hd0) $IMAGE" > bmap
echo -e "geometry (hd0) $CYLINDERS 16 63\nroot (hd0,0)\nsetup (hd0)" | grub --device-map=bmap --batch



--
Dr Peter Chubb        www.nicta.com.au      peter DOT chubb AT nicta.com.au
http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au           ERTOS within National ICT Australia
From Imagination to Impact                       Imagining the (ICT) Future

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DESCRIPTION = "GRand Unified Bootloader"
HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/grub"
SECTION = "bootloaders"
DEPENDS = "libtool-native"
PR = "r0"

S = "${WORKDIR}/grub-${PV}"
SRC_URI = "ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-${PV}.tar.gz"

inherit autotools native

do_configure() {
	oe_runconf CFLAGS="-fno-stack-protector"
}

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