Re: Can Grub Boot Through a USB Port on an Old PC?
On Thu, 2019-07-25 at 21:23 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
> Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> writes:
> > I've used 'schroot' in the past for this sort of thing, let's you
> > configure what to mount and I believe either defaults or has
> > examples
> > for the common things you're likely to need like /dev and /proc. I
> > don't remember the details as it's been quite some years since I
> > used
> > it.
> Thanks for this information. I have installed schroot
> as this seems to be the missing link I didn't know about.
>
> I knew one had to have all the resources turned on so to
> speak and it looks like schroot makes getting it right in this
> century much more likely.
This may, or may not, be useful to the sort of work you do, but I also
used it to run a Debian install for a different CPU, in my case an Arm
Debian install running on my x86 PC. I found that getting a PC to
emulate an Arm CPU was a lot quicker and more convenient than doing it
on the Arm single board computers I had. In such a setup, whilst the PC
is having to do lot's of extra works to emulate Arm instructions
for running user code, you are still using the PC's kernel, so disk i/o
is likely an order of magnitude or more faster, and you have available
all the PC's RAM, which is probably a lot more than the ARM board's.
If I remember correct, getting such a setup working was quite straight
forward. To be able to run foreign binaries I think you just need to
install package qemu-user-static and it's recommendation
binfmt-support, and after a quick google just now [1], there is
probably an emulation binary from that which needs copying into the Arm
chroot.
[1] https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi/qemu-user-static
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Tixy
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