From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [203.143.174.143] (helo=lemon.ken.nicta.com.au) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MsNRc-00046I-II for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:07:43 +0200 Received: from c220-239-171-171.farfl1.nsw.optusnet.com.au ([220.239.171.171]:59000 helo=quokka.chubb.wattle.id.au) by lemon.ken.nicta.com.au with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MsNR5-0005hd-3X for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:07:20 +1000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=localhost.chubb.wattle.id.au) by localhost with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MsNQV-00019S-V3 for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:06:32 +1000 Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:06:31 +1000 Message-ID: <87zl8eok2w.wl%peter@chubb.wattle.id.au> From: Peter Chubb To: In-Reply-To: References: User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.14.0 (Africa) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.9 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Goj=F2?=) APEL/10.7 MULE XEmacs/21.4 (patch 21) (Educational Television) (i486-linux-gnu) Organization: National ICT Australia MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 203.143.174.143 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: peter.chubb@nicta.com.au X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on linuxtogo.org); Unknown failure Subject: Re: x86->x86 GRUB bootable image in OE? X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:07:44 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >>>>> "Leon" == Leon Woestenberg 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