[coreboot] grub as payload: Where to put the grub.cfg?

Philipp Stanner stanner at posteo.de
Wed Nov 9 22:03:56 CET 2016


Hi Nico,

thanks so far.

Using your own pointer to the HDD serves to purpose of being able to
change the cfg-file without flashing the ROM, I presume?

Anyhow using grub you'd have to use the Shell to start an OS from an
external drive - in an emergency for example, correct?

Am 09.11.2016 um 10:19 schrieb Nico Huber:
> Hi Philipp,
>
> On 09.11.2016 09:46, Philipp Stanner wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm currently busy making cb+grub running. While I can boot successfully
>> (qemu) using the grub-shell I of course want to automatize this process.
>>
>> But how and where do I have to put the grub.cfg file? The wiki doesn't
>> include much informations about this.
>>
>> I would appreciate if someone could help me :)
> it's indeed not very obvious. There should be a grub.cfg in the grub
> image, that just points to the next in cbfs at "/etc/grub.cfg". That's
> where you should put yours, like that:
>
>   build/cbfstool build/coreboot.rom add -t raw -n etc/grub.cfg -f
> your-grub.cfg
>
> Nico
>
> PS. My (cbfs)/etc/grub.cfg contains just another pointer:
>
> configfile (ahci0,1)/grub/grub.cfg
>




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