Re: [coreboot] Grub2 for Coreboot

[Nachiketh G]

Hi Gregg,
You were spot an about updating my build tools, I did that and also
downgraded to a different version of Grub2 from the repository(1.99) and I
was able to compile it! I now have an elf file ready to integrate with
Coreboot.
Thanks!
Regards,
Nachiketh

On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 2:26 AM, Gregg Levine wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Nachiketh G  wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> > Please find the answers below:
> > What release of Grub2 did you select? (There are many numbered ones
> >
> > each running towards the 2.00 release one.)
> > > > I checked out the latest version on
> > > > http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/grub/trunk/grub (Using bzr branch
> > > > http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/grub/trunk/grub)
> > Was this release of Grub2 retrieved from their storage point recently?
> > > > Yes
> > Was Coreboot updated recently?
> > > > I have checked out the latest copy of Coreboot from their repository as
> > > > well, I have not yet compiled it though... thought I would compile the
> > > > payload first before compiling Coreboot.
> > What is your build environment? What distribution is this on?
> > > > I'm using a Ubuntu(2.6.38 Kernel) with a gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro
> > > > 4.5.2-8ubuntu4) 4.5.2 compiler.
> >
> > Please let me know if there is something wrong in what I'm doing.
> > Thanks!
> > -Nachiketh
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 1:38 AM, Gregg Levine 
> > wrote:
> > > On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Nachiketh G
>
> wrote:
> > > > Hi Folks,
> > > > I'm new on Coreboot and I'm trying to compile Grub2 as a payload for
> > > > Coreboot. I'm following the steps provided under
> > > > http://www.coreboot.org/Talk:GRUB2 and i'm getting the following
> > > > compilation
> > > > error:
> > > >
> > > > cc1: warnings being treated as errors
> > > > kern/i386/coreboot/init.c:45:9: error: unknown option after '#pragma
>
> GCC
> > > > diagnostic' kind
> > > > make[3]: *** [kern/i386/coreboot/kernel_exec-init.o] Error 1
> > > > make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/nachiketh/coreboot/grub/grub-core'
> > > > make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
> > > > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/nachiketh/coreboot/grub/grub-core'
> > > > make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> > > > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/nachiketh/coreboot/grub'
> > > > make: *** [all] Error 2
> > > >
> > > > Please let me know what I'm doing wrong or is there any step that has
> > > > got
> > > > missed out which is causing this problem.
> > > > Thanks in advance!
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Nachiketh
> > >
> > > Hello!
> > > Let's start it out this way:
> > > What release of Grub2 did you select? (There are many numbered ones
> > >
> > > each running towards the 2.00 release one.)
> > > Was this release of Grub2 retrieved from their storage point
>
> recently?
> > > Was Coreboot updated recently?
> > >
> > > What is your build environment? What distribution is this on?
> > >
> > > Gregg C Levine [e-mail]
> > > "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
>
> Hello!
> About the only thing I can suggest is that there is yet another drift
> to be explained inside the Ubuntu set you have. Please make sure your
> build tools are properly updated.
>
> Also please consider keeping the list (both the help grub list and
> this one) informed.
>
> Gregg C Levine [e-mail]
> "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."