The help text of grub2 explains the detailed steps to create a disk
image with grub2 installed on it. However, the steps for the
BIOS-based systems have a few minor issues fixed by this patch:
- When calling partx to get the partitions detected, we should do it
on the /dev/loop0 block device, and not on the underlying disk.img
image file.
- The grub-bios-setup utility must be called as root to work properly
on /dev/loop0.
- The steps to cleanup the partx and loop device were missing.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Since boot partition was not specified, grub tools try to detect it
automatically. This patch add an option to force it.
Signed-off-by: Jérôme Pouiller <jezz@sysmic.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Tested-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Add an option for embedding a config file directly in grub.
Signed-off-by: Dima Zavin <dmitriyz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Grub 2 has been marked BROKEN in June 2010, and nobody cared to fix it
since then.
At that time, it was marked broken because the build process needed a
Ruby interpreter available on the host, and it's really a pain that
building a bootloader needs such a thing.
I've tried to upgrade the package to Grub2 1.99-rcX, and now it does
not need a Ruby interpreter anymore, but instead requires a tool
called "autogen", which itself needs the Guile Scheme interpreter.
Since we haven't heard any complaints about Grub2 being marked broken,
and since it's such a pain to package, let's get rid of it. Of course,
anybody interested in Grub2 is invited to contribute a working
package.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Now that TARGET_CC contains several space-separated words, it must be
used quoted everywhere.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
The build process of grub2 breaks the compilation. It breaks with:
./configure: line 4766: syntax error near unexpected token `external'
./configure: line 4766: `AM_GNU_GETTEXT(external)'
In addition to this, it later requires Ruby. Do we really want to make
Buildroot depend on Ruby being installed on the host ? Do we really
want to build our own Ruby ? Do we even care about Grub2 ?
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Much of the grub2.mk seems to have been copy/pasted from
grub.mk. However, all the network/splashimage related ./configure
options do not exist in grub2.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
grub2 now builds fine, but some work remains to make it usable. What
should be installed exactly in the TARGET_DIR ? What is the
installation procedure and what should Buildroot do ?
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
