[yocto] installing iso images in legacy mode

[Markus Volk]

Perhaps the issue should be fixed by making this switch static ?



On Tue, 1 Aug 2017 21:58:16 +0200
Markus Volk <f_l_k at t-online.de> wrote:

> I had some time to look at this issue today. Since grub was recently updated i tried using the old recipes from pyro. This fixed booting without efi. Then i had a look at meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/files/init-install.sh
> 
> My suspicion was, that this line
> 
> grub_version=$(grub-install -v|sed 's/.* \([0-9]\).*/\1/')
> 
> turns out to be zero with grub-202, and thereby messes the whole thing up
> 
> Changing to:
> 
> grub_version=202
> 
> fixed my legacy boot problem.
> 
> :)
> 
> On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 17:27:07 +0200
> Markus Volk <f_l_k at t-online.de> wrote:
> 
> > Iso Images (x86_64) created with the current master fail when trying to install using the legacy bios startup. Live boot from usb is fine, but when installing, i´m getting an error ... "/usr/share/locale" could not be found. After reboot i'm getting dropped to grub-shell, because the kernel could not be loaded.
> > 
> > When setting the bios startup to uefi mode, everything works as expected.
> > 
> > Has legacy pcbios mode been dropped or is this some kind of bug ?
> > 
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