[Buildroot] cannot log to my build root

Diego Iastrubni diegoiast at gmail.com
Tue Dec 14 14:38:47 UTC 2010


Still no go. I do see the dev directory filled, and still login prevents me
from logging (both root and default, which should have an empty value.
correct?).

Tried with the full device list, and with the mini version.

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Thomas Petazzoni <
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:39:45 +0200
> Diego Iastrubni <diegoiast at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Nope. In my original case /dev/tty was not a char device (a null file
> > instead). Creating these files fixed the problem:
>
> This is because you are using the output/target/ directory, but you
> should *not* do this. From the Buildroot documentation:
>
> «
> target/ which contains almost the complete root filesystem for the
> target: everything needed is present except the device files in /dev/
> (Buildroot can't create them because Buildroot doesn't run as root and
> doesn't want to run as root). Therefore, this directory should not be
> used on your target. Instead, you should use one of the images built in
> the images/ directory. If you need an extracted image of the root
> filesystem for booting over NFS, then use the tarball image generated
> in images/ and extract it as root.
> »
>
> Thomas
> --
> Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
> Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
> development, consulting, training and support.
> http://free-electrons.com
>
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