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

[Simon Glass]

Hi Francesco,

On 27 April 2015 at 00:56, Francesco Lucconi <luccons at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2015-04-25 1:04 GMT+02:00 Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>:
>>
>> 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
>
>
> @Simon Glass: About u-boot I'm using coreboot_x86 config, and with
> u-boot.srec I noticed that I received several prints of startup ( like this
> "......................" ) but later the virtual machine hangs up.

Did you follow the instruction sin README.x86? Can you provide console output?
>
> @Bin Meng: I'm using BIOS embedded of Virtualbox platform and I've
> customized the 512 bytes MBR data with several debug prints and with the
> partitions table based on the features of my FAT16 partitions.
>
> Regards,
> Francesco
>

Regards,
Simon