Re: [debian-mips] Lemote mini-pc pmon + grub.elf + grub

[Javier Vasquez <j.e.vasquez.v@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Javier Vasquez <j.e.vasquez.v@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 4:15 AM, Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> wrote:
>> * Javier Vasquez (j.e.vasquez.v@gmail.com) [110910 19:58]:
>>> ...
>>
>> I'm not sure if grub-yeelong is the right package for that. I'm using
>> grub build from trunk, and it works. (My reason for using trunk was
>> however the 2e-support, and as I have 2e, and decided to just use it
>> for 2f as well.)
>>
>>
>>> ...
>>
>> Looks good to me for the first look.
>>
>> Does your machine do any output at the serial console?
>>
>>
>> (For reference, I have a hand-build grub.elf by using
>> grub-mkimage -O mipsel-loongson-elf -o grub.elf normal linux ata usb_keyboard ohci part_msdos ext2 xfs part_gpt ls halt reboot usbms gzio search lspci help ahci blocklist date elf pata configfile echo
>> which works.)
>>
>>
>> Andi
>
>
> Hi,
>
> As grub 2.0 was finally released with support for fuloong, I went for
> traditional make + make install, since debian's experimental
> grub-yeeloong is broken and doesn't install well (and the unstable one
> still doesn't work with fuloong)...
>
> I confirmed with  just "grub-install" the ELF image generated is good
> for mini-pc.  So now that works.  However I couldn't make the keyboard
> work on the grub menu, so I couldn't get to select the linux image to
> load on the menu...  I even included the usb and the usb_keyboard grub
> modules through GRUB_PRELOAD_MODULES on /etc/default/grub.
>
> Any hints?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Javier.

I also tried generating the grub.elf image with:

grub-mkimage -O mipsel-loongson-elf -o grub.elf normal linux ata
usb_keyboard ohci part_msdos ext2 xfs part_gpt ls halt reboot usbms
gzio search lspci help ahci blocklist date elf pata configfile echo

And as with the automatically generated I didn't get the keyboard to
work.  But furthermore, I didn't get the menu, so without kbd I
couldn't but with suych image...

Any hint to get the usb kbd working (with the menu) would be great, :-)

-- 
Javier.