[U-Boot] installing u-boot on a virtual x86 machine

Bin Meng bmeng.cn at gmail.com
Sat Apr 25 01:04:11 CEST 2015


Hi Francesco,

On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Francesco Lucconi <luccons at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm Francesco Lucconi from Italy, and I'm involved into a x86 project where
> my issue is to compile a u-boot (I'm currently using uboot-2015.01) and to
> install it into a VID (virtual image disk) of virtualbox.
>
>
> I've already tuned the MBR, registering two FAT16 partitions, one for
> u-boot and the other one for future kernel uImage and firmware development.
> In this moment I figured out that I've installed correctly the MBR cause I
> can see on the display strings I've applied on the MBR source code but it
> seems that u-boot.bin code doesn't run correctly, the system hangs out....
> Could you give me any tips I didn't notice before?

Could you elaborate more on what BIOS is being used, and what MBR
codes is that? Is it grub?

Regards,
Bin


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