[Buildroot] Improper device nodes created inside project_build_arm/uclibc/root/dev/

Hamish Moffatt hamish at cloud.net.au
Tue Apr 22 09:59:09 UTC 2008


On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 09:14:16AM +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> >>>>> "Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <hamish at cloud.net.au> writes:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>  >> If this is what it is suppose to do, then how to mount the same for NFS
>  >> boot. 
> 
>  Hamish> You could mount a generated image file somewhere via the loopback
>  Hamish> device. Then you would have the devices that are in the image. ext2
>  Hamish> would be a good choice. Do you want to write back to the root or not?
> 
>  Hamish> Alternatively you could add a new target output format for NFS root.
> 
> We already have that - tarball creation.

Good point. So, Hebbar: just use the tarball target, and extract it somewhere
(as root) for use by your target system. Don't mount the
buildroot/project_build.../.../root directory directly as it won't
contain the real devices.


Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish at debian.org> <hamish at cloud.net.au>



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