From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga14.intel.com (mga14.intel.com [143.182.124.37]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01CFAE004E4 for ; Mon, 3 Oct 2011 16:18:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from azsmga001.ch.intel.com ([10.2.17.19]) by azsmga102.ch.intel.com with ESMTP; 03 Oct 2011 16:18:13 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.68,481,1312182000"; d="scan'208";a="58371897" Received: from unknown (HELO [10.255.15.15]) ([10.255.15.15]) by azsmga001.ch.intel.com with ESMTP; 03 Oct 2011 16:18:12 -0700 From: Tom Zanussi To: Darren Hart In-Reply-To: <4E8A1DD4.6010303@linux.intel.com> References: <4E8A0380.1030502@linux.intel.com> <1317668520.12684.8.camel@ted> <1317668867.2323.24.camel@elmorro> <4E8A1DD4.6010303@linux.intel.com> Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:18:49 -0500 Message-ID: <1317683930.2323.28.camel@elmorro> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 Cc: Yocto Project , "Wold, Saul" Subject: Re: GRUB fix for 1.1: Preferred approach for default grub version X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 23:18:15 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 13:40 -0700, Darren Hart wrote: > > On 10/03/2011 12:07 PM, Tom Zanussi wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 12:01 -0700, Richard Purdie wrote: > >> On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 11:48 -0700, Darren Hart wrote: > >>> When grub2 was merged int oe-core, it became the default (rather than > >>> being explicitly requested by the 64b meta-intel BSPs). This breaks the > >>> live install on 32b systems, like the n450 - installing grub v1.99 with > >>> a grub v1 config. > >>> > >>> We have a couple options on how to fix this. > >>> > >>> 1) Set PREFERRED_PROVIDER_grub="0.97" in all 32b x86 machine configs > >>> 2) Set DEFAULT_PREFERENCE="-1" in the grub_1.99.bb recipe which would > >>> affect all of oe-core. > >>> 3) Some alternate approach which would be the equivalent of > >>> DEFAULT_PREFERENCE, but only for meta-yocto BSPs or the poky > >>> "distro". > >>> > >>> Given the time frame, I'd prefer to agree on the approach before writing > >>> and testing patches. Preferences? > >> > >> I thought I'd been assured grub2 worked fine for our 32 and 64 bit > >> platforms? :/. > >> > >> The correct question here is why doesn't grub2 work on 32 bit platforms? > >> > > > > I did test it with both 32-bit and 64-bit BSPs in meta-intel, so it > > should work for the n450 too. > > I checked out edison in poky in meta-intel and built core-image-minimal > for n450. By default it builds GRUB 2, which after install boots to a > GRUB prompt with no menu. > I'm not even getting that far with edison - it fails at 'Searching for a hard drive'. I'd be happy to have it fail with no menu. Can you send me the commit ids for meta-intel and poky that actually got you that far, and if you could a serial capture of the install? Thanks, Tom > Using the PREFERRED_PROVIDER method above with the edison branches > results in a GRUB 1 menu after install. > > -- > Darren > > > > > Tom > > > >> The answer might be "we need for time than is available in the 1.1 > >> release to fix it" but I'd at least like to see the answer to the > >> question before we start with workarounds. > >> > >> Cheers, > >> > >> Richard > >> > > > > >