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

[Francesco Lucconi]

Here you have the 512 bytes of MBR within the Virtual Disk Image (VID) of
virtualbox. As you can notice there's not clearly the string "Error!"
mentioned on previous screenshot.
About MBR building to ease the procedure, I've created the MBR code
automatically with PartitionGuru application...

2015-04-28 10:25 GMT+02:00 Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>:

> Hi Francesco,
>
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 4:23 PM, Francesco Lucconi <luccons at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Yes, I've readed the README.x86 document provided from uboot, I've
> created
> > my u-boot-dtb.bin following the rules of coreboot-x86 recipe.
> > I suppose I have to apply several tunings since I'm working with a PC
> with
> > i7-2600 Intel Core CPU, right?
> > Here you have the screenshots of some starting phases on virtualbox
> platform
> > (I've attached the files even if I think they don't give many
> information).
> >
>
> Looks like the 'error' message is printed by the MBR loader codes. Can
> you point us the source of the MBR?
>
> >
> > 2015-04-27 17:50 GMT+02:00 Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>:
> >>
> >> 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,
> Bin
>
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