[dev] Opensource (multiboot) Bootloader: Efidroid (formerly Grub4android)

[M1cha]

U made a typo: almost every device

Well... what's QCOM's market share?

 

[linuxx]

Well... what's QCOM's market share?

Even not qcom devices can have it if someone ports uboot api on the bootloader.
I didn't mean will get it, I meant can get it

 

[Alecsandru]

multiboot doesn't work yet and there isn't any app to create new multiboot systems.

AAA : app to create? old school doesn't work?
how about framebuffer?

 

[M1cha]

The screenshots you saw were UI design only. I still need to make it functional.
What do you mean with framebuffer?

 

[Alecsandru]

framebuffer console

 

[M1cha]

can you go into more detail pls? I have no idea what u're talking about

 

[Alecsandru]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_framebuffer

 

[M1cha]

I know what a framebuffer is but I have no idea what your question is lol

 

[Alecsandru]

loader and kernel-side linux can be taught to display a console when loading drivers+services , the question was: have you tried that?

 

[linuxx]

loader and kernel-side linux can be taught to display a console when loading drivers+services , the question was: have you tried that?

Why should we need this?

 

[Alecsandru]

if a hardware error is detected you will see-it

 

[linuxx]

if a hardware error is detected you will see-it

Lol. Pretty useless.

 

[Alecsandru]

the linux is useless?

 

[linuxx]

the linux is useless?

There are a lot of ways to get logs. No need of useless code for a log. Most users will fund this useless. This is for everyone, not for devs. If u cannot live without ure free to fork and edit grub4android.

 

[Alecsandru]

you want to say that you ported a loader only for using 2 android roms?

console=tty0,

 

[linuxx]

you want to say that you ported a loader only for using 2 android roms?

Yes. Grub4android is a multiboot solution.
Ask @M1cha

 

[Alecsandru]

it's a crippled grub?

 

[M1cha]

GRUB is fully functional but what else do you want to do with GRUB? the whole purpose of grub is multiboot(even on computers). Also framebuffer console is a kernel feature not a bootloader one.

 

[Alecsandru]

and you should enable-it from kernel init paramaters, have you tried making this? that was my first question in few words

 

[linuxx]

and you should enable-it from kernel init paramaters, have you tried making this? that was my first question in few words

What the hell is this?
Grub can have fun with ramdisk not zImage.

 

[Alecsandru]

you don't have to ''have fun'' with zimage , loader-has to load , to load-configs

 

[M1cha]

you can't do that via the kernel command line. you need to enable fbcon in the kernel config(drivers/video/console/) and you need a fbcon driver that is compatible with your hardware. (which we don't have)

 

[Alecsandru]

what is open and what isn't?

 

[XperianPro]

@Alecsandru you are really rocking with all those questions

 

[Alecsandru]

i'm coming fom a linux phone to a cippled linux one *(android) with higher hardware specs , for me the loader *(in my case u-boot) was used for booting different OS-es (arch , ubuntu , mer, and a fail-safe one on sd-card ),now the grub ''thing'' used for multibooting android roms seems weird to me