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Building for Joggler on a PC .

Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2019 11:08 am
by hawsey
Hi all ,

Is there any way I can take a ready made efi build and add stuff / test on a pc before booting on the Joggler ?
I'm trying to do stuff but finding the Joggler form factor an issue .

Thanks

Gary

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Re: Building for Joggler on a PC .

Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2019 3:23 pm
by pete
Way back I did get the XP / Seabios image running in Oracle Virtual box. Not sure if this would work with an EFI boot bios Ubuntu image.

Way to do this is basically install Oracle Virtual box on your computer and copy over a running image to file. You can resize it and do all sorts of stuff to it.

Limiting factor in any build on the Joggler is the amount of RAM available which is only 512Mb. Might be easier to do this with seabios running rather than the EFI bios.

Merry Christmas Gary!!!

Re: Building for Joggler on a PC .

Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2019 4:47 pm
by hawsey
pete wrote:Way back I did get the XP / Seabios image running in Oracle Virtual box. Not sure if this would work with an EFI boot bios Ubuntu image.

Way to do this is basically install Oracle Virtual box on your computer and copy over a running image to file. You can resize it and do all sorts of stuff to it.

Limiting factor in any build on the Joggler is the amount of RAM available which is only 512Mb. Might be easier to do this with seabios running rather than the EFI bios.

Merry Christmas Gary!!!
Merry Christmas Pete , thanks for that :-) , wondering how BuZz and Roobarb build theirs , is it all done on a Joggler ?
It's probably more complex than I imagine .

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Re: Building for Joggler on a PC .

Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2019 9:06 pm
by pete
Not really that complex. You need to crawl in to the Linux rabbit hole and google creating a Linux image...

Here is an example of one of many way to do this:

DIY: Build a Custom Minimal Linux Distribution from Source https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/di ... ion-source

Re: Building for Joggler on a PC .

Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2020 11:00 am
by roobarb!
hawsey wrote: Tue Dec 24, 2019 4:47 pmwondering how BuZz and Roobarb build theirs , is it all done on a Joggler ?
Nay, it's all done on a server just outside of Lille these days! :)

It's largely based around the debootstrap build tool - if you're happy reading through scripts then a good place to look is at of-imgcreate, which deals with building the images, but not compiling the kernel. Also, the build logs show how it all should look when running.

Any instructions on debootstrap will give you an overview of how to build a Linux image from scratch, but @pete is right - it's a rabbit hole! :shock: