Re[2]: Building grub2 for use as a kernel on qemu

[Shaun Reitan]

I guess the question is, should i be using i386-qemu?  For kicks i just 
built a image using

./grub-mkstandalone -O i386-qemu -o grub2.img boot/grub/grub.cfg -d 
grub-core

and qemu will use it, however when i connect to the VNC console all i 
see is a bunch of colorful giberish.

--
Shaun



------ Original Message ------
From: "Andrei Borzenkov" <address@hidden>
To: "Shaun Reitan" <address@hidden>; "address@hidden" 
<address@hidden>
Sent: 2017-02-02 12:01:58 AM
Subject: Re: Building grub2 for use as a kernel on qemu

> On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 6:25 AM, Andrei Borzenkov <address@hidden> 
> wrote:
> ...
> > >  grub-mkimage -O i386-pc -c grub.cfg -o grub2.img at_keyboard 
> > > configfile
> > >  biosdisk ext2 linux serial halt minicmd terminal all_video cat echo 
> > > gzio
> > >  search linux16 normal disk test true fat memdisk tar ls sleep -p
> > >  /usr/src/grub/grub-core/
> ...
> >  Use grub-mkstandalone to create image that includes internal memory 
> > disk
> >  and place your config on this memory disk. Do not include your 
> > modules
> >  in image itself. By default grub-mkstandalone adds all available
> >  modules; if size is an issue (but this is really a couple of 
> > megabytes,
> >  so I do not expect it), you can restrict module list and other
> >  components - see help output.
>
>
> Sorry, missed that you use i386-pc platform, not i386-qemu. Then size
> of boot image does matter, you may want to at least exclude themes and
> translations (if any). Full standalone image that includes all bells
> and whistles for GUI boot does not fit in available memory on this
> platform.
>
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