From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [72.14.220.157] (helo=fg-out-1718.google.com) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MsO79-0001m6-4a for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:50:38 +0200 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id e21so780468fga.6 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:49:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=06HqExBWdVkUjd8tjhmX+yOIYKF6u43UTZXxu0ogz3A=; b=HqFl0UbNjgKaRwtHMDnwyuxPzMRirtEWmRt2TbHK5CdrYu+Wab1FdkJIM5MR5SCq2g nRjD3DfxUTsADC6TcyjWXMKnARF1upzZx/Gf6RN273IlbkhPNeih0dVlZTBOZY31C+w9 FH3KFXfUJTFVQeqhZiJX6/SrlwIaAxTId+zvA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=miSXpr2hOwRkY7Ou8kFf+F3SaJw2A2HCkScVuw1sExj7GBgLvq0N+/9jQOVdEZoKVZ mc7vqzjk9//7crcNUeSLC+9BDcrdRJQledtaqRC0Io7jIZorV8J2G/BnxoiCd1h6FuZE N5w7SQ16KGeYyCXRxW/eAwqVjXN2k8tXDbCes= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.183.32 with SMTP id s32mr287624hbg.170.1254174594505; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:49:54 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87zl8eok2w.wl%peter@chubb.wattle.id.au> References: <87zl8eok2w.wl%peter@chubb.wattle.id.au> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:49:54 +0200 Message-ID: From: Leon Woestenberg To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 72.14.220.157 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: leon.woestenberg@gmail.com 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 21:50:38 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello Peter, On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Peter Chubb wr= ote: >>>>>> "Leon" =3D=3D 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. =A0You 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. =A0Grub 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, --=20 Leon