[Buildroot] Built a file system, have a working kernel - how to login ?

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Dear Juha Lumme,

On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 20:07:28 +0900, Juha Lumme wrote:

> My reference is Olinuxino maxi, made by Olimex. It's running Freescales
> i.mx233.

Ok.

> Regarding the inittab and getty configuuration; Actually, that is a copy
> paste error for some reason there is a hash in there. In the inittab, that
> line is not commented out.

Ok.

> I didn't compile kernel with buildroot, since kernel requires couple
> patches, and also the sources are downloaded from freescale, not kernel.org(
> https://github.com/koliqi/imx23-olinuxino/blob/master/Building%20a%20kernel%20%20for%20the%20OLinuXino.md
>  ).

Ok. It is most likely possible to get this kernel built with Buildroot,
but let's compile it separately first and get it working this way.

> I'm not that proficient with buildroot (or building kernels) that I know
> how to enable buildroot to compile this "custom kernel".. Do you see this
> making my life much more difficult if I compile kernel separately ?

No.

> I checked my kernel config, and it seems it has this flag enabled:
> CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y
> However: # CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT is not set
> 
> In buildroot, I didn't change the /dev management, so it's currently set as
> "static using device table". I guess there is a mismatch now..

If you're using "static using device table", then CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y is
not needed, but it's harmless to have it.

How do you install your root filesystem on the target?

Best regards,

Thomas
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