[elbe-devel] rootfs partition image?

[Norbert Nemec | BLOKS.]

On 30.11.2015 14:39, Manuel Traut wrote:
>
>> At the moment, we only create filesystem-images for ubifs.
>> There is no support for writing an own boot-sector.
>>
>> I think support for sth. like
>> --8<--
>> <images>
>>    <msdoshd>
>>      <name>..</name>
>>      <size>..</size>
>>      <binaries>
>>        <binary bs=1024 seek=8>/tmp/u-boot-with-spl.bin</binary>
>>      </binaries>
>>      <partition>
>>        <size>1G</size>
>>        <label>rfs</label>
>>        <offset>1M</offset>
>>      </partition>
>>    </msdoshd>
>> </images>
>> --8<--
>>
>> would be nice.
Looks good to me.

I saw that there is some special grub support in elbe. What does that 
offer? Can grub be installed to the boot sector? How would that work?
>> Does anyone have experience with boards that expect to find u-boot
>> at the beginning of the disk?
> IMHO this boot-method is popular for Allwinner SoCs?
May well be. I only know this one specific Allwinner A33 board (sinlinx 
SinA33) that I am working with.

> I have never used elbe with this kind of boot-method.
My understanding is that this boot-method is the default on desktop 
systems. I'm surprised that it seems to be rather exotic for embedded...

Greetings,
Norbert

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