Building and using ELILO for the Joggler

One of the initial problems I had with Joggler was the source-less ELILO, which I could not seem to replicate. I've succeeded in doing that now, thanks to a patch from TonyHoyle.

First off, you will need at least GCC 4.3.3 (what I tested with), as well as gnu-efi 3.0i from http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnu-efi/files/ (This is a toolchain for EFI binaries)

In gnu-efi 3.0i you will need to edit Make.defaults:

INSTALLROOT=/usr/local

to

INSTALLROOT=/usr

and then make; make install

Then you need to grab elilo-3.12-source.tar.gz from http://sourceforge.net/projects/elilo/files/ and apply (patch -p1) this patch against it (patch -p1) I have provided a elilo.efi that works on my Joggler (not in the 'screen.efi' trick), downloadable here.

You need to after putting elilo.efi in place, in your boot.nsh put the following lines (only lines in the file):

fs1:
cd \efi\elilo
elilo

And provide in \efi\elilo , a elilo.conf not unlike the following. legacy-free is a VERY IMPORTANT OPTION and is required because there is no 'real' BIOS on the joggler. Hope this works for you, otherwise, show up on #mer at irc.freenode.net :)

# Command line options understood here are
#
# fixup    - Apply fixups so the default joggler OS can boot the new kernel.
# recovery - Instead of booting stop in a diagnostic shell

legacy-free
default=usb

image=vmlinuz-2.6.30
        label=linux2
        read-only
 initrd=initrd-2.6.30
 append="acpi=force root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 fixup"
 description="Standard joggler OS with new kernel"

image=vmlinuz-2.6.30
 label=usb
 initrd=initrd-2.6.30
 append="acpi=force root=/dev/sda2"
 description="Boot from USB"

image=vmlinuz
 label=testing
 read-only
 append="acpi=force root=/dev/mmcblk0p2"
 description="Test vmlinuz, no initrd"

image=vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-lpia
 label=test
 initrd=initrd-2.6.30
 append="acpi=force root=/dev/sda2"
 description="Boot from Test"