[debian-yeeloong-project] GRUB as the boot loader. Was Re: [gNewSense-users] Lemote (mipsel) install fails with "Architecture not supported".

[Michael Dorrington]

Daniel Molina wrote:
> On 29/03/11 01:28, Michael Dorrington wrote:
>> Paul Roge wrote:
>>  =20
>>> this is a good manual for installing
>>> debian squeeze/wheezy on the lemote yeeloong:
>>>
>>> http://romanrm.ru/en/loongson/debian
>>>     =20
> Thanks for the link too!
>> How do you use the grub-yeeloong package to boot into grub?
>> Or how do you get the grub.elf mentioned in
>> http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Projects/GNewSenseToMIPS#GRUB
> I am currently researching about that. I'm writing my current results i=
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> http://ourproject.org/moin/projects/yeeloong-users/install-distros
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> I started the wiki and the forum
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> http://yeeloong-users.ourproject.org/
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>  with the intention of reaching the technical yeeloong information in a=

> way understandable by the users and as a point where make questions.
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> Sorry about my bad english and the ocasional fall down of the web page
> (ourproject is a bit unestable), but I hope it is interesting and I
> encourage you to improve the site (the wiki needs no registration at
> all, so it is very easy to contribute :)).

I've been working on it and have got a way that works. The main trick is
using grub-mkimage to generate the necessary grub.elf. See:
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianYeeloong/HowTo/Install#Squeeze_boot_loader_G=
RUB

Improvements and suggestions welcome.

Regards,
Mike.

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