From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sam Liddicott Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:29:09 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Creating a bootable filesystem image? Message-ID: <20080414202554.1CDA82FE1132@sam.liddicott.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net I'm trying to get round the error that that loopback moount presumes LBA geometry which is not how the disk image was formatted. I've just been scripting disk partition/installs of dualboot linux/freedos partitions and learned a lot, but I did't get chance to put it into buildroot today, sorry. Sam -----Original Message----- From: Arun Reddy Sent: 14 April 2008 17:57 To: Sam Liddicott Cc: Sebastian ; Buildroot List Subject: Re: [Buildroot] Creating a bootable filesystem image? Hi Sam, Just to be clear are you referring to the same script "build-ext3-img" script? If so can I get some more information on what exactly it is you are trying to fix with it? I would like to point out that I was also able to bypass the error Sam and I mentioned by simply moving my .iso image from the .../binaries/uclibc folder and placing it somewhere else. Using the script, it then made use of the actual rootfs.i386.ext2 image. Unfortunately I am still getting the error that there is no space. arun On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Sam Liddicott wrote: I've managed to understand lba and chs freakery. The disk image chs mapping that gub ses is not the one used bye the mount the copied the files. I've spent the best part of a day this week playing with lba and chs mappings and think that on Monday I can fix the script. Sam From: Arun Reddy Sent: 11 April 2008 19:51 To: Sebastian Cc: Buildroot List Subject: Re: [Buildroot] Creating a bootable filesystem image? Sebastian and Buildroot members I will try this as soon as I can. Right now I am not near my machine with my build system. If anyone can please try this out for themselves to give further feedback I would greatly appreciate it. This might be something I can submit as a bug if everyone is experiencing it. Thank you and I will let you know about my results as soon as I can Arun On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Sebastian wrote: Hello Arun, I tried to create an ext2 file system myself (i486 architecture without any applications enabled). The first two questions I answered with return, the last one with /home/basti/linux/buildroot/binaries/uclibc/ and then I noticed that the fdisk command gave the same error message as you wrote. But it doesn't create a partition, so I create one myself: (n)ew, (p)rimary, (1), return, return, (w)rite. Then it tries to install grub which fails for me, as it can't find /boot/grub/stage1 on the image. If I could provide these files, it should work, as grub recognizes the partition. Maybe you could try to build no ISO image at all, just the ext2 (ext3) root file system. I have really no idea why it tries to copy your iso file onto the image, as it is not to be placed there. Best regards, Sebastian ? ? ? ?Sebastian, ? ? ? ?Thanks for the information, I do understand it much clearer ? ? ? ?now. I am attempting to run the script and find out whether my ? ? ? ?input will result in the bootable filesystem I want. When ? ? ? ?running build-ext-img, I input ? ? ? ?Enter the path to the image: ? ? ? ?I input "/root/buildroot/scripts/" since that is where the ? ? ? ?filesystem image is located. ? ? ? ?Enter the name of the image file: ? ? ? ?I input "buildroot.img" ? ? ? ?Enter the path to the root filesystem that you want to install ? ? ? ?the image ? ? ? ?I [The entire original message is not included] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://busybox.net/lists/buildroot/attachments/20080414/809bfa68/attachment.htm