From: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCHv3 for-2012.11 3/5] manual: more warnings to not use output/target
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 22:59:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1354053560-30352-3-git-send-email-arnout@mind.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1354053560-30352-1-git-send-email-arnout@mind.be>
From: "Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)" <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
---
docs/manual/using.txt | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/docs/manual/using.txt b/docs/manual/using.txt
index 6e144d0..857aa33 100644
--- a/docs/manual/using.txt
+++ b/docs/manual/using.txt
@@ -84,11 +84,12 @@ This directory contains several subdirectories:
libraries.
* +target/+ which contains 'almost' the complete root filesystem for
the target: everything needed is present except the device files in
+/dev/+ (Buildroot can't create them because Buildroot doesn't run
- as root and doesn't want to run as root). Therefore, this directory
+ as root and doesn't want to run as root). Also, it doesn't have the correct
+ permissions (e.g. setuid for the busybox binary). Therefore, this directory
*should not be used on your target*. Instead, you should use one of
the images built in the +images/+ directory. If you need an
extracted image of the root filesystem for booting over NFS, then
use the tarball image generated in +images/+ and extract it as
root. Compared to +staging/+, +target/+ contains only the files and
--
1.7.10.4
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-27 21:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-27 21:59 [Buildroot] [PATCHv3 for-2012.11 1/5] manual: trivial fixes Arnout Vandecappelle
2012-11-27 21:59 ` [Buildroot] [PATCHv3 for-2012.11 2/5] manual: various fixes Arnout Vandecappelle
2012-11-27 22:39 ` Samuel Martin
2012-11-27 22:51 ` Samuel Martin
2012-11-27 21:59 ` Arnout Vandecappelle [this message]
2012-11-27 21:59 ` [Buildroot] [PATCHv3 for-2012.11 4/5] manual: give example where _INSTALL_TARGET = NO Arnout Vandecappelle
2012-11-27 21:59 ` [Buildroot] [PATCHv3 for-2012.11 5/5] manual: restructure 'Adding packages' chapter Arnout Vandecappelle
2012-11-28 1:10 ` [Buildroot] [PATCHv3 for-2012.11 1/5] manual: trivial fixes Peter Korsgaard
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