[Buildroot] Making a Bootable USB Image for x86_64

[Jimmy at 86Pixels]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2016, at 08:35 AM, Jérôme Pouiller wrote:
> Hello Jimmy,
> 
> On Monday 22 August 2016 22:11:51 Jimmy wrote:
> > Greetings all,
> > 
> > I know this has been asked a lot, but I have been sifting through the
> > archives and Google in order to find the best way to make a bootable
> > USB image of my buildroot installation for an x86 based machine. I
> > have done the following:
> > 
> > 1. Generated a tar image of the root filesystem via the configuration
> > menu 2. Selected grub2 from bootloaders with the i386-pc platform 3.
> > Created a 1Gb EXT2FS partition with 1mb of space preceding on the USB
> > device itself
> > 4. Extracted the rootfs tar to the USB device on the ext2 partition
> > 5. Ran the following from the main buildroot directory (as root):
> > ./output/host/usr/sbin/grub-bios-setup -b
> > ./output/host/usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/boot.img -c
> > ./output/images/grub.img -d . /dev/sdb
> > 
> > The command immediately exits with a "segmentation fault (Core
> > dumped)".
> hmm... it looks like a snaky x86/x86_64 cross-compilation problem.
> 
> Help of grub2 (boot/grub2/Config.in) package provide an alternative way 
> to create bootable disk images with grub2. It use genimage instead of 
> grub-bios-setup. Let me know if it help.
> 
> BR,
> 
> -- 
> Jérôme Pouiller, Sysmic
> Embedded Linux specialist
> http://www.sysmic.fr
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Thank you both for the advice! I eventually solved this problem by
pulling the latest master branch to include Erico Nunes' kernel EFI
patch which solved the issue!

Thank you all so much again.
Jimmy