[Buildroot] x86 image for download

[Buildroot] x86 image for download

[John Voltz]

I finally created a bootable x86 image using buildroot, and a lot of
hand-copying of files to my target dir. It's available for download if
anyone is interested, it could be a nice testbed to use. It has kernel
2.6.24.4, X windows, gtk, some games, festival tts, and WebKit.

It's available here in two flavors, qemu ext3 image or VMware vmdk virtual
disk:

ftp://64.31.81.93/

The qemu image is more flexible as it can be mounted independently and also
can be converted to vmdk using qemu-img.

It's mountable like this:
sudo mount -o offset=32256,loop buildroot.img temp

It can be converted to a vmware disk like this:
qemu-img convert buildroot.img -O vmdk buildroot.vmdk

John
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[Buildroot] x86 image for download

[Joe]

Hi John, thanks for sharing! Looks really interesting to me...

> I finally created a bootable x86 image using buildroot, and a lot of
> hand-copying of files to my target dir.
Is it really complicated, or can you maybe do some short guide on how 
you did it? This could be a very efficient way to set up special-purpose 
machines in vmware...

Thanks again, Joe

-- 
Sepp "ZaP" Holzmayr

please reply to: zentrale.at.work at gmail.com
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a freight train full of DAT tapes. 
Only the round-trip is a little suboptimal."

[Buildroot] x86 image for download

[Arun Reddy]

I'd like to second this request as well! I recently got a bootable x86 image
working and successfully converted it to a .vdi to be used in VirtualBox. It
would be nice to see how a professional does it so maybe I can learn to
optimize my method.

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:53 PM, Joe <zentrale.at.work@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi John, thanks for sharing! Looks really interesting to me...
>
> > I finally created a bootable x86 image using buildroot, and a lot of
> > hand-copying of files to my target dir.
> Is it really complicated, or can you maybe do some short guide on how
> you did it? This could be a very efficient way to set up special-purpose
> machines in vmware...
>
> Thanks again, Joe
>
> --
> Sepp "ZaP" Holzmayr
>
> please reply to: zentrale.at.work at gmail.com
> "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a freight train full of DAT tapes.
> Only the round-trip is a little suboptimal."
> _______________________________________________
> buildroot mailing list
> buildroot at uclibc.org
> http://busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/buildroot
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[Buildroot] x86 image for download

[John Voltz]

The thing is, it should just work for everyone. I'm working on a fix for
libtool right now, that was the major stumbling block for building for x86.
Libtool is relinking the libraries with -rpath=/usr/lib which is no good.
I'm taking care of that little nasty. I'm also going to work at integrating
the bootable ext3 option into menuconfig.

John


On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 2:59 AM, Arun Reddy <reddyac@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd like to second this request as well! I recently got a bootable x86
> image working and successfully converted it to a .vdi to be used in
> VirtualBox. It would be nice to see how a professional does it so maybe I
> can learn to optimize my method.
>
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:53 PM, Joe <zentrale.at.work@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi John, thanks for sharing! Looks really interesting to me...
> >
> > > I finally created a bootable x86 image using buildroot, and a lot of
> > > hand-copying of files to my target dir.
> > Is it really complicated, or can you maybe do some short guide on how
> > you did it? This could be a very efficient way to set up special-purpose
> > machines in vmware...
> >
> > Thanks again, Joe
> >
> > --
> > Sepp "ZaP" Holzmayr
> >
> > please reply to: zentrale.at.work at gmail.com
> > "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a freight train full of DAT tapes.
> > Only the round-trip is a little suboptimal."
> > _______________________________________________
> > buildroot mailing list
> > buildroot at uclibc.org
> > http://busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/buildroot
> >
>
>
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