[Buildroot] need help making bootable image

Bjørn Forsman bjorn.forsman at gmail.com
Sat Nov 19 21:42:21 UTC 2011


On 19 November 2011 21:51, Jacob Sullivan <mail at jakesullivan.com> wrote:
[...]
> Questions:
> 1) is this the right approach, or am I missing an obvious step?

I haven't worked with ISO images + Buildroot, so I don't really have
any comments.

> 2) is there a reason that the inittab file only has getty on a serial port by default?

I think Buildroot is used most often on headless systems.

> 3) what is the recommended way of making changes to buildroot so that when a new version comes out I don't lose all my changes.  I thought that I would just need to put my .configs into source control, but it looks like I need to change the inittab file in the skeleton. How do other people handle configuration changes that aren't covered by any of the .configs (or the various make menuconfigs)?

I personally use git branches.

For your .config file: make savedefconfig && cp defconfig
configs/myconfig_defconfig

Now Buildroot will list your config file when "make help" and load the
configuration when "make myconfig_defconfig".

Best regards,
Bjørn Forsman



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