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mender-convert: bios support

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      Description

      Today Mender only supports EFI on x86-64.

      Smaller adjustments would be needed to support BIOS on x86, and the following steps have been verified by a user (manual changes):

      1. mender-convert should copy the 440 first bytes of MBR from input image to output image if it detects that this is an BIOS image

      • the 440 first bytes are "boot code" which contains jump instructions to the GRUB binary which is stored between MBR and first partition (boot-gap)
      • we already have a feature in mender-convert to copy the boot-gap from input to output image

      2. grub.cfg and related file should be installed to boot/grub directory instead of boot/EFI/BOOT

      3. Change boot part mount location to /boot/grub instead of /boot/efi (same as we do in Yocto)

      • this works as-is today, but might be confusing to have the /boot/efi mount on a bios system

      Additional possible steps:

      1. Create a default config for a x86 bios build (e.g a qemu) as reference

      2. Test integration

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            mirzak Mirza Krak
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