From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
To: David Craven <david@craven.ch>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How does install-grub work?
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 22:50:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160829225056.240c8d0e@scratchpost.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL1_im=6UScmG31OMLZLn_XWzBaoNv=aoTjROy9Xu1nP0XVTVA@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 29 Aug 2016 22:29:40 +0200
David Craven <david@craven.ch> wrote:
>So for booting a vm we don't actually need a boot loader, since it passes the kernel image through the -kernel flag.
Huh, that appears to be the case. Back when I used VMs the first time they simulated the entire PC, BIOS and all and there you would need the partition table, bootloader etc just as you would on a real PC. But it seems to have changed now...
> @Danny: Did you write install-uboot.c? I don't have a clue what it's
> doing =P
Yes, I wrote it. It makes sure it's safe to write to an unclaimed fixed-position section of a drive and then writes to it.
Essentially it does
$ dd if=u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin of=/dev/sdX bs=1024 seek=8
^^^ ^^^
depends on board depends on board
but only after making sure that this doesn't clobber anything (payload data on parititons, the partition table etcetc).
It's supposed to be analogous to grub-install, just for u-boot.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-29 20:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-05 18:37 [PATCH 02/12] import: utils: Symbols from 'license->symbol' have a license: prefix David Craven
2016-08-05 18:37 ` [PATCH 03/12] gnu: python: Import guix licenses with #:prefix license: David Craven
2016-08-05 18:37 ` [PATCH 04/12] gnu: python: Add python-binaryornot David Craven
2016-08-08 20:37 ` Leo Famulari
2016-08-22 12:05 ` David Craven
2016-08-22 12:14 ` David Craven
2016-08-22 13:20 ` [PATCH 01/11] import: utils: Symbols from 'license->symbol' have a license: prefix David Craven
2016-08-22 13:20 ` [PATCH 02/11] gnu: python: Import guix licenses with #:prefix license: David Craven
2016-08-26 20:55 ` David Craven
2016-08-22 13:20 ` [PATCH 03/11] gnu: Add python-binaryornot David Craven
2016-08-22 13:20 ` [PATCH 04/11] gnu: Add python-nltk David Craven
2016-08-27 8:39 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-10-24 21:15 ` Leo Famulari
2016-08-22 13:20 ` [PATCH 05/11] gnu: Add python-pymongo David Craven
2016-08-22 13:20 ` [PATCH 06/11] gnu: Add python-sh David Craven
2016-08-27 8:42 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-08-28 12:28 ` David Craven
2016-08-29 10:31 ` Guix with U-Boot Danny Milosavljevic
2016-08-29 11:25 ` David Craven
2016-08-29 14:12 ` David Craven
2016-08-29 14:19 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-08-29 16:51 ` David Craven
2016-08-29 17:20 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-08-29 17:52 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-08-29 18:10 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-08-29 17:38 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-08-29 18:16 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-08-29 18:20 ` David Craven
2016-08-29 18:56 ` David Craven
2016-08-29 19:04 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-08-29 18:57 ` How does install-grub work? Danny Milosavljevic
2016-08-29 20:29 ` David Craven
2016-08-29 20:50 ` Danny Milosavljevic [this message]
2016-08-29 20:54 ` David Craven
2016-08-29 21:19 ` David Craven
2016-08-29 21:57 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-08-29 22:00 ` David Craven
2016-08-29 22:14 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-08-30 15:33 ` David Craven
2016-08-29 21:45 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-08-29 22:04 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-08-22 13:20 ` [PATCH 07/11] gnu: Add python-schematics David Craven
2016-08-22 13:20 ` [PATCH 08/11] gnu: Add python-publicsuffix David Craven
2016-08-22 13:20 ` [PATCH 09/11] gnu: Add python-publicsuffix2 David Craven
2016-08-22 13:20 ` [PATCH 10/11] gnu: Add python-url David Craven
2016-08-22 13:20 ` [PATCH 11/11] gnu: Add python-ipaddress David Craven
2016-08-05 18:37 ` [PATCH 05/12] gnu: python: Add python-nltk David Craven
2016-08-05 18:37 ` [PATCH 06/12] gnu: python: Add python-pymongo David Craven
2016-08-08 20:36 ` Leo Famulari
2016-08-08 20:39 ` Leo Famulari
2016-08-05 18:37 ` [PATCH 07/12] gnu: python: Add python-sh David Craven
2016-08-05 18:37 ` [PATCH 08/12] gnu: python: Add python-schematics David Craven
2016-08-05 18:37 ` [PATCH 09/12] gnu: python: Add python-publicsuffix David Craven
2016-08-05 18:37 ` [PATCH 10/12] gnu: python: Add python-publicsuffix2 David Craven
2016-08-05 18:37 ` [PATCH 11/12] gnu: python: Add python-url David Craven
2016-08-05 18:37 ` [PATCH 12/12] gnu: python: Add python-ipaddress David Craven
2016-08-05 18:50 ` Leo Famulari
2016-08-06 12:52 ` David Craven
2016-08-06 15:57 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-08-07 0:20 ` Leo Famulari
2016-08-27 6:43 ` [PATCH 02/12] import: utils: Symbols from 'license->symbol' have a license: prefix Ricardo Wurmus
2016-08-27 8:31 ` David Craven
2016-08-30 19:07 ` Eric Bavier
2016-09-16 5:03 ` Eric Bavier
2016-09-16 7:29 ` David Craven
2016-09-16 15:40 ` Eric Bavier
2016-09-16 15:47 ` David Craven
2016-09-16 17:02 ` Eric Bavier
2016-09-19 13:06 ` Ludovic Courtès
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20160829225056.240c8d0e@scratchpost.org \
--to=dannym@scratchpost.org \
--cc=david@craven.ch \
--cc=guix-devel@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.