From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Behan Webster Subject: Re: embedded rootfs utility Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:03:37 -0400 Message-ID: <489C7C69.5060209@websterwood.com> References: <488FCF7D.5010005@websterwood.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Thanks for this useful tool! > I'm used to plain debootstrap, but decided to give your elbs-rootfs a try for > creating up a mipsel and a powerpc NFS root file system. It worked fine, > except for one minor nit. As an NFS root file system is mounted read-only by > default, I had to manually do > > | mount -n proc /proc -t proc > | mount -n -o remount -w / > > before running finish.sh. Perhaps this can be added to the top of finish.sh? > Odd. I never had this issue. It has always just worked for me. None the less, I will add checks for this to the script. > Add the end of its execution, finish.sh says: > > | Feel free to delete /debootstrap and the downloaded packages > | # rm -rf /debootstrap > | # apt-get clean > | Please reboot now > | # shutdown -r now > > Shouldn't it suggest to delete /finish.sh, too? > Ah. finish.sh used to delete itself when finished. I removed that while testing, and forgot to put it back in. Indeed you are correct. > Anyway, thanks for this tool! > I'm glad you are finding it useful. -- Behan Webster behanw@websterwood.com