Re: How does install-grub work?

[David Craven]

> Does the u-boot bootloader routine have to do anything other than
> generating the extlinux.conf file? That would be enough so that there
> is an alternative to grub-install for the qemu use case and for actual
> boards, isn't uboot usually written to flash instead of to a MBR?

So I'd say the next steps are:

1. Pick out your changes that are related to renaming grub to
bootloader and add a shim for the uboot parts. That should be enough
to get vm's booting.

2. Add your extlinux.conf generation/install code.

3. We can still add an install uboot to MBR procedure if it's necessary.

This would break the changes down into easy to review patches and subgoals...