From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix, from userid 118) id EAB6BE00BE3; Thu, 5 Jun 2014 07:41:56 -0700 (PDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on yocto-www.yoctoproject.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-HAM-Report: Received: from mail.chez-thomas.org (mail.mlbassoc.com [65.100.170.105]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26BEEE00A44 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2014 07:41:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 1998) id 328D8F811EA; Thu, 5 Jun 2014 08:41:52 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [192.168.1.114] (zeus [192.168.1.114]) by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18DDCF811DF; Thu, 5 Jun 2014 08:41:51 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <539081B5.6020905@mlbassoc.com> Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 08:41:57 -0600 From: Gary Thomas User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Eggleton References: <53906B96.300@mlbassoc.com> <4993560.6EjrQmr5SY@peggleto-mobl5.ger.corp.intel.com> <1461672.ni0uDSAuWr@peggleto-mobl5.ger.corp.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <1461672.ni0uDSAuWr@peggleto-mobl5.ger.corp.intel.com> Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org, Scott Rifenbark Subject: Re: Live images? X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto Project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 14:41:57 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 2014-06-05 08:32, Paul Eggleton wrote: > On Thursday 05 June 2014 15:26:28 Paul Eggleton wrote: >> Hi Gary, >> >> On Thursday 05 June 2014 07:07:34 Gary Thomas wrote: >>> Looking through the Poky/Yocto sources, there seems to be >>> some support for Live CD/USB images. However, I can't find >>> any examples nor documentation for how to use this. >>> >>> Can anyone provide some pointers? >> >> You're right, we seem to be missing that in our documentation; I'm not sure >> where the best place to document it would be though. >> >> FYI, you should just need to ensure "live" is in IMAGE_FSTYPES; then you >> should get a .directdisk image that you can just dd to a USB stick. > > Of course I meant to say .hddimg, not .directdisk. Thanks, I'll give that a try. What if I needed to boot from an actual CD? I have an old box here I'd like to try, but it doesn't boot from USB. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------