[Announce] Initial GRUB2 on Yeeloong

[Announce] Initial GRUB2 on Yeeloong

[Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko]

Hello, I'm here to announce that grub2 port for yeeloong has already had
its first output. You can see it here:
http://robertmh.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/grub-yeeloong.jpeg (Thanks
to Robert Millan for hosting the image)
On the image you can see standard shell waiting for input.
What already works: booting as ELF from pmon, loading modules, graphics
output if gfx card is already inited (is a case when booted from pmon),
platform-independent parts
What doesn't work: keyboard and disks
Not checked: linux booting (works on qemu)
It also has stubs (e.g. "rtc" is just counting number of calls) and
hardcodes (e.g. RAM size) but is already something.
Compiling:
get mips branch of http://repo.or.cz/w/grub2/phcoder.git
./autogen.sh
./configure --target=mipsel --with-platform=yeeloong
make
Create a font.bin as explained here: http://grub.enbug.org/gfxterm
./grub-mkimage  -O elf -o grub.elf -d . -f font.bin sm712 gfxterm sh normal
Boot it as if it was linux kernel
Enjoy starring at unresponsive prompt

-- 
Regards
Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
Personal git repository: http://repo.or.cz/w/grub2/phcoder.git 




-- 
Regards
Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
Personal git repository: http://repo.or.cz/w/grub2/phcoder.git 

Re: [Announce] Initial GRUB2 on Yeeloong

[Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko]

Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> Hello, I'm here to announce that grub2 port for yeeloong has already had
> its first output. You can see it here:
> http://robertmh.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/grub-yeeloong.jpeg (Thanks
> to Robert Millan for hosting the image)
> On the image you can see standard shell waiting for input.
> What already works: booting as ELF from pmon, loading modules, graphics
> output if gfx card is already inited (is a case when booted from pmon),
> platform-independent parts
> What doesn't work: keyboard and disks
>   
Now keyboard works
> Not checked: linux booting (works on qemu)
> It also has stubs (e.g. "rtc" is just counting number of calls) and
> hardcodes (e.g. RAM size) but is already something.
> Compiling:
> get mips branch of http://repo.or.cz/w/grub2/phcoder.git
>   
git branch removed due to general move to bazaar. Now it's available
under http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/grub/people/phcoder/mips/
> ./autogen.sh
> ./configure --target=mipsel --with-platform=yeeloong
> make
> Create a font.bin as explained here: http://grub.enbug.org/gfxterm
> ./grub-mkimage  -O elf -o grub.elf -d . -f font.bin sm712 gfxterm sh normal
>   
Now it's:

./grub-mkimage  -O elf -o grub.elf -d . -f font.bin sm712 gfxterm sh normal at_keyboard

> Boot it as if it was linux kernel
> Enjoy starring at unresponsive prompt
>
>   


-- 
Regards
Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
Personal git repository: http://repo.or.cz/w/grub2/phcoder.git 

Re: [Announce] Initial GRUB2 on Yeeloong

[Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko]

Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
>> What already works: booting as ELF from pmon, loading modules, graphics
>> output if gfx card is already inited (is a case when booted from pmon),
>> platform-independent parts
>> What doesn't work: keyboard and disks
>>   
>>     
> Now keyboard works
>   
Another update: Now internal disk and Linux loading work. Because of bzr
reconstruction I can't push it on it. Interested persons can just mail
me and I'll send you a tarball
>> ./autogen.sh
>> ./configure --target=mipsel --with-platform=yeeloong
>> make
>> Create a font.bin as explained here: http://grub.enbug.org/gfxterm
>> ./grub-mkimage  -O elf -o grub.elf -d . -f font.bin sm712 gfxterm sh normal
>>   
>>     
> Now it's:
>
> ./grub-mkimage  -O elf -o grub.elf -d . -f font.bin sm712 gfxterm sh normal at_keyboard
>
>   
./grub-mkimage -O elf -o grub.elf -d . -f font.bin sm712 gfxterm sh
normal at_keyboard ata linux part_msdos ext2

-- 
Regards
Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
Personal git repository: http://repo.or.cz/w/grub2/phcoder.git 

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Re: [Announce] Initial GRUB2 on Yeeloong

[Robert Millan]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 09:02:06PM +0100, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> >> Create a font.bin as explained here: http://grub.enbug.org/gfxterm
>
> ./grub-mkimage -O elf -o grub.elf -d . -f font.bin sm712 gfxterm sh normal at_keyboard ata linux part_msdos ext2

Hi,

Vladimir's port of GRUB to the Yeeloong has been merged in GRUB experimental
tree, and is now packaged and will be available in metad in a few hours.

There's no grub-install yet.  For those of you who want to try, install
the grub-yeeloong package and follow Vladimir's instructions (quoted above).

When running system-wide grub-mkimage, you may skip the "-d ." flag (in fact,
you probably have to).

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