[coreboot] using grub with coreboot

[ron minnich]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Patrick Georgi <patrick at georgi-clan.de> wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 17.04.2008, 21:28 +0400 schrieb Mikhail Savchenko:
>
> > I successfully run grub 1.96 from coreboot repository with coreboot on
>  > my tyan s2850 board and gets grub console.
>  Great!
>
>
>  > Can anybody give me assist  for getting my linux to boot with it. If I
>  > right understand I need to place my menu.lst to memdisk, or choose it
>  > with configfile from my hdd, but I not fully understand how can I do
>  > that, also I haven't find the kernel command module so I don't
>  > understand how can I set up which kernel to boot.
>  you need the modules "linux" and "boot", the command is "linux", not
>  "kernel" (they did that to disambiguate, I think). initrd is still
>  initrd.
>
>  the configfile was renamed to grub.cfg, and also changed a bit in
>  format, I think. See the usual GRUB2 documentation on that (I'm not too
>  sure about the format, either)
>
>  To get the files into the firmware image, I usually do the following, which
>  requires the lar tool from coreboot v3: (you can build only lar by running
>  "make lar" in the root directory of coreboot v3)
>
>  $CBV3DIR/build/util/lar/lar -s 30k -c test.lar grub.cfg
>
>  you can add more files to the lar file, as you need them, and you have
>  to adjust the size (argument to -s) accordingly.
>
>  then, create a grub module from the lar file:
>
>  ./bin/grub-mkdiskimage test.lar lib/grub/i386-linuxbios/diskimage.mod
>
>  add diskimage and lar (so you get support for the file format as "filesystem")
>   to your grub-mkimage arguments.
>
>  If there are any issues, feel free to ask!
>
>

Is this on the wiki somewhere? It probably ought to be.

ron