From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:58:30 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] proc not mouning In-Reply-To: <1D6034426110564DA0DEA9EE9793B3835817742BC0@NBE-MBX01.americas.swk.pri> References: <4D89170F.7080305@michaelburghart.de> <4D88B94A.1060609@free.fr> <4D88BD19.7070901@michaelburghart.de> <4D88C6B3.5010103@free.fr> <4D88F97B.4060605@michaelburghart.de> <20110322195502.GA8662@tarshish> <4D88FFC6.1010404@michaelburghart.de> <20110322200337.GB8662@tarshish> <4D8904BF.5060503@michaelburghart.de> <4D898F3C.8010603@michaelburghart.de> <20110323171608.GC3225@nataf.siach.name> <1D6034426110564DA0DEA9EE9793B383581774296C@NBE-MBX01.americas.swk.pri> <1D6034426110564DA0DEA9EE9793B3835817742BC0@NBE-MBX01.americas.swk.pri> Message-ID: <20110324195830.5a30d30c@surf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:35:16 -0400 "Heyendal, Carl" wrote: > I was originally generating the root filesystem as a cpio archive and > using that to populate my SD card. Later on, as a build optimization, > I disabled generating rootfs.cpio at the top level Buildroot > menuconfig. Instead I started copying 'output/target/*' over to my SD > card. That's when the trouble began I guess. I switched back to using > rootfs.cpio to populate the SD card and I no longer have the > problem. :-) >From the Buildroot documentation at http://buildroot.org/downloads/buildroot.html : 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 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. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com