[oe] x86->x86 GRUB bootable image in OE?

[Leon Woestenberg]

Hello Peter,

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Peter Chubb <peter.chubb at nicta.com.au> wrote:
>>>>>> "Leon" == Leon Woestenberg <leon.woestenberg at gmail.com> 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.  You 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.  Grub 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,
-- 
Leon