From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bogdan Cristea Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:03:07 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Creating a filesystem for QEMU In-Reply-To: <4d28d4b50911120658h67155758k54a7d95599cee1fe@mail.gmail.com> References: <200911121623.45929.cristeab@gmail.com> <4d28d4b50911120658h67155758k54a7d95599cee1fe@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <200911121703.07478.cristeab@gmail.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Thursday 12 November 2009 16:58:15 you wrote: > - You can generate a cloop root filesystem using buildroot, and then > convert it to the format you want using qemu-img > - Create an initramfs, and boot it using qemu > - Create an ext2 filesystem and write it on a qemu disk through an > install cdrom > - and so on.... > Thank you for your feedback, I'll try to explore these options in the next days. IMHO it could be extremely useful to have these indications into the help page of buildroot. Could you expand a little more the last option (Create an ext2 filesystem and write it on a qemu disk through an install cdrom). I don't understand that part. thanks Bogdan