[Buildroot] Bootloader

[Buildroot] Bootloader

[Willy Lambert]

Hi all,

I'm having very hard time for some weeks now with action to do after
the "make" to play with generated stuff. The better hints I found on
the web was this :
http://osmz.mrl.cz/buildroot.html
I managed to create a "partitionned" image file but it fails on my
machine with grub install.

It makes me wonder what is the default way to go with bootloaders with
buildroot generated stuff.
I tried several options but none worked, I'm missing some
documentation to start with anything.

The one I know the most is grub, but I need a "grub-install" phasis
but no "host-tool" seems to be provided.

Is there any documentation on how to use bootloaders with buildroot ?

[Buildroot] Bootloader

[Richard Braun]

On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 06:18:39PM +0100, Willy Lambert wrote:
> The one I know the most is grub, but I need a "grub-install" phasis
> but no "host-tool" seems to be provided.

This problem is specific to the x86 architecture. I've posted a way to
work around this issue [1] some time ago, along with a template script
you can adjust to your needs [2]. If your host is an x86_64 machine, be
sure to install 32-bit versions of your main libraries (e.g. libc6-i386
on Debian Squeeze). Hope it helps.

-- 
Richard Braun

[1] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2012-August/057536.html
[2] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2012-August/057538.html