[Buildroot] building buildroot is not successful

[Cameron Hutchison]

"M.A. Hockings" <veeshooter at hockings.net> writes:

>I am trying to build buildroot on a Centos 5.4 box.  The build fails 
>with a permission denied error when accessing package/config/mconf but 
>it is not clear to me why.  

>-g -O2  mconf.o zconf.tab.o lxdialog/checklist.o lxdialog/util.o 
>lxdialog/inputbox.o lxdialog/textbox.o lxdialog/yesno.o 
>lxdialog/menubox.o -lncursesw -o mconf
>make[1]: Leaving directory `/media/disk/buildroot-2009.11/package/config'
>/bin/sh: package/config/mconf: Permission denied

At a guess I would say the /media/disk is mounted noexec. Run mount(8)
to check.