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From: Hamish Moffatt <hamish@cloud.net.au>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] Improper device nodes created inside	project_build_arm/uclibc/root/dev/
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:59:09 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080422095909.GA31643@cloud.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8763uaqs3b.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk>

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 09:14:16AM +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> >>>>> "Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <hamish@cloud.net.au> writes:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>  >> If this is what it is suppose to do, then how to mount the same for NFS
>  >> boot. 
> 
>  Hamish> You could mount a generated image file somewhere via the loopback
>  Hamish> device. Then you would have the devices that are in the image. ext2
>  Hamish> would be a good choice. Do you want to write back to the root or not?
> 
>  Hamish> Alternatively you could add a new target output format for NFS root.
> 
> We already have that - tarball creation.

Good point. So, Hebbar: just use the tarball target, and extract it somewhere
(as root) for use by your target system. Don't mount the
buildroot/project_build.../.../root directory directly as it won't
contain the real devices.


Hamish
-- 
Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-22  9:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-21  6:14 [Buildroot] Improper device nodes created inside project_build_arm/uclibc/root/dev/ Hebbar
2008-04-21 14:07 ` Hamish Moffatt
2008-04-22  0:12   ` Hebbar
2008-04-22  0:50     ` Hamish Moffatt
2008-04-22  1:58       ` [Buildroot] Improper device nodes created insideproject_build_arm/uclibc/root/dev/ Gururaja Hebbar K R
2008-04-22  1:56         ` Hamish Moffatt
2008-04-22  7:54           ` Peter Korsgaard
2008-04-22  7:14       ` [Buildroot] Improper device nodes created inside project_build_arm/uclibc/root/dev/ Peter Korsgaard
2008-04-22  9:59         ` Hamish Moffatt [this message]
2008-04-22 16:40           ` [Buildroot] Improper device nodes createdinside project_build_arm/uclibc/root/dev/ Ulf Samuelsson
2008-04-22 18:24             ` Peter Korsgaard
2008-04-22 18:47               ` Ulf Samuelsson
2008-04-22 20:52                 ` Peter Korsgaard
2008-04-23  0:45                   ` Thiago A. Corrêa
2008-04-23 17:03                     ` [Buildroot] Improper device nodes createdinsideproject_build_arm/uclibc/root/dev/ Ulf Samuelsson
2008-04-23 18:09                       ` Peter Korsgaard
2008-04-23 18:33                         ` Ulf Samuelsson
2008-04-24  9:31                           ` Peter Korsgaard
2008-04-25 15:00                             ` Thiago A. Corrêa
2008-04-22  7:12     ` [Buildroot] Improper device nodes created inside project_build_arm/uclibc/root/dev/ Peter Korsgaard
2008-04-23  5:45       ` Hebbar

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