maemo.org - Talk - Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader)

EDIT: One more thing, my experience would have been far less painful if ubiboot had printed an error message to tell me that my kernel image was not found before running kexec. I had no idea why it was failing and thought there was a problem with the kernel I built.

Ah, sorry about that!
Actually 0.3.7 has a lot better logging, it will tell you if the kernel is not loaded correctly and also check and log the init script correctness...

wicket

2018-03-02 19:13

Re: Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader)

Thanks juiceme!

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Originally Posted by juiceme (Post 1541916)

Most if not all sources are in my github, except some experimental stuff still in my personal svn repo.

I didn't even realise there were Git or Subversion repositories. I found the source directory and thought that was all there was! Now I know that there's a Git repo, you may see some patches coming your way. ;)

I assume this is what you are referring to. It seems to contain ubifs and kernel patches so I guess this is the main repo (not just animatronics) that I should be looking at.

n950	2018-03-03 07:41

Re: Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader)

@Juiceme:

Hello,

It would be necessary to bring initrd support to ubiboot to be usable without serial console.

Can you make update for that?
It will help for new pmOS.

juiceme

2018-03-03 14:12

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Originally Posted by n950 (Post 1541938)

@Juiceme:

Hello,

It would be necessary to bring initrd support to ubiboot to be usable without serial console.

Can you make update for that?
It will help for new pmOS.

So you mean possibility to load a separate initrd file with the kernel, instead of just booting the kernel directly on a partition?
Sure, I see no problems with that really; it's just a kernel boot option to load the initrd.

n950	2018-03-03 14:17

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Originally Posted by juiceme (Post 1541952)

Correct.
To boot pmOS i need to go on Ubuntu, open terminal run kexec command via telnet.
I would like to make it auto when i push on pmOS icon for exemple.
Like running kexec command behind that without my pc.
you can do it?

juiceme

2018-03-03 14:21

Re: Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader)

Yes, it could be done.
However, as you see I have not worked with new releases since 2014, I kind of stopped development on ubiboot when I moved to SFOS :D

n950	2018-03-03 14:31

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Originally Posted by juiceme (Post 1541954)

Yes, it could be done.
However, as you see I have not worked with new releases since 2014, I kind of stopped development on ubiboot when I moved to SFOS :D

When you will update it?

juiceme

2018-03-03 15:22

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Originally Posted by n950 (Post 1541955)

When you will update it?

When I have time and interest to do it (= maybe never...?)

wicket

2018-03-03 22:51

Re: Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader)

I've added support for additional kexec options. That will allow you to specify an initrd image in ubiboot.conf.

I also replaced the Ubuntu graphic for a Maemo Leste graphic. ;)

Let's see if juiceme likes it. :D

https://github.com/juiceme/ubiboot-animatronics/pull/1

juiceme

2018-03-03 23:33

Re: Introducing ubiboot N9 (multiboot OS loader)

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Originally Posted by wicket (Post 1541980)

PR accepted :D

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