[Buildroot] genimage with GPT partition

Carlos Santos casantos at datacom.com.br
Tue Aug 28 12:57:59 UTC 2018


> From: "LP" <lpdev at cordier.org>
> To: "DATACOM" <casantos at datacom.com.br>
> Cc: "buildroot" <buildroot at busybox.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2018 8:28:17 AM
> Subject: Re: [Buildroot] genimage with GPT partition

> Hi again,

> I think support for GPT would be a useful feature to add to the back log.
> Carlos, would it be possible for you to share your custom script? It would save
> me a lot of time not doing it from scratch.

[...]

>> genimage does not create GPT partitions. In my current project I made a
>> tricky post-image script which uses sfdisk, mcopy and mkfs to craft a
>> disk image with the required partitions. It's beautifully horrendous.

I will make a simplified (and readable) version and post it somewhere.

-- 
Carlos Santos (Casantos) - DATACOM, P&D
“Marched towards the enemy, spear upright, armed with the certainty
that only the ignorant can have.” — Epitaph of a volunteer



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