[Buildroot] [RFC] How to handle targets that need more than one file system to boot?

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Thu Jan 3 09:13:38 UTC 2013


Thomas, All,

On Thursday 03 January 2013 09:57:02 Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Jan 2013 09:53:40 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> 
> >   AFAIK there is no equivalent of genext2fs for FAT, so it would be 
> > rather difficult to make a boot-vfat.img in buildroot (use sudo?
> > fuse? pmount?).
> 
> You have the mtools, see http://www.gnu.org/software/mtools/.
> 
> Also, see the genimage tool from Pengutronix people:
> http://www.pengutronix.de/software/genimage/download/.

And genpart, too:
    http://www.pengutronix.de/software/genpart/index_en.html

Whoohoo! :-)

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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