On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 12:01 -0700, Richard Purdie wrote: > On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 11:48 -0700, Darren Hart wrote: > > When grub2 was merged int oe-core, it became the default (rather than > > being explicitly requested by the 64b meta-intel BSPs). This breaks the > > live install on 32b systems, like the n450 - installing grub v1.99 with > > a grub v1 config. > > > > We have a couple options on how to fix this. > > > > 1) Set PREFERRED_PROVIDER_grub="0.97" in all 32b x86 machine configs > > 2) Set DEFAULT_PREFERENCE="-1" in the grub_1.99.bb recipe which would > > affect all of oe-core. > > 3) Some alternate approach which would be the equivalent of > > DEFAULT_PREFERENCE, but only for meta-yocto BSPs or the poky > > "distro". > > > > Given the time frame, I'd prefer to agree on the approach before writing > > and testing patches. Preferences? > > I thought I'd been assured grub2 worked fine for our 32 and 64 bit > platforms? :/. > > The correct question here is why doesn't grub2 work on 32 bit platforms? >
I did test it with both 32-bit and 64-bit BSPs in meta-intel, so it should work for the n450 too. Tom > The answer might be "we need for time than is available in the 1.1 > release to fix it" but I'd at least like to see the answer to the > question before we start with workarounds. > > Cheers, > > Richard > _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto