Dr. Chubb,

Thanks so much for your reply. This did the trick! I have another question
that I will ask on another thread.

Thanks again,

Matthew Scaperoth

Jr. Programmer Analyst

The George Washington University

Academic Technologies

Tel: 202-994-6907

On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Peter Chubb <[email protected]>
wrote:

> >>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Scaperoth <[email protected]> writes:
>
>
> Matthew> I am at the George Washington University working on
> Matthew> benchmarking the seL4 system. I am new to systems, and I am
> Matthew> having a hard time building a bootable USB image On Ubuntu
> Matthew> 14.04 x86. I understand that there is a Grub2 stanza on the
> Matthew> Downloads page <https://sel4.systems/Download/> on the SeL4
> Matthew> website, but I cannot find the sel4kernel and sel4rootserver
> Matthew> files in the system to build into a boot image.
>
> If you have built a seL4-based systemaccording to the instructions, the
> kernel and root server are in .../images/  They have different names
> according to what you've built.
>
> For example, sel4test names the root server
> sel4test-driver-image-ia32-pc99 and the kernel kernel-ia32-pc99
>
> I generally use syslinux to create a bootable USB stick, as the grub
> on my system wants to use EFI.
>
> Like this, assuming your flash drive is at /dev/sdb with a FAT
> partition at /dev/sdb1:
>
>   install-mbr /dev/sdb
>   syslinux --install /dev/sdb1
>   mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
>   cp images/sel4test-driver-image-ia32-pc99 /mnt/rootserver
>   cp images/kernel-ia32-pc99 /mnt/sel4kernel
>   cat > /mnt/syslinux.cfg <<EOF
>   SERIAL 0 115200
>   DEFAULT seL4test
>   LABEL seL4test
>     kernel mboot.c32
>     append sel4kernel --- rootserver
>   EOF
>   cp /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios/mboot.c32 /mnt
>   cp /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios/libcom32.c32 /mnt
>   umount /mnt
>
>   use fdisk to make sure the first partition is bootable.
>
> And you're done.  Output will come on the serial port
>
>
> Hope this helps.
> --
> Dr Peter Chubb                                  peter.chubb AT
> nicta.com.au
> http://www.ssrg.nicta.com.au          Software Systems Research
> Group/NICTA
>
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