From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 12:35:31 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Built a file system, have a working kernel - how to login ? In-Reply-To: References: <20121117111132.17a91542@skate> Message-ID: <20121117123531.431cbd65@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Juha Lumme, On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 20:07:28 +0900, Juha Lumme wrote: > My reference is Olinuxino maxi, made by Olimex. It's running Freescales > i.mx233. Ok. > Regarding the inittab and getty configuuration; Actually, that is a copy > paste error for some reason there is a hash in there. In the inittab, that > line is not commented out. Ok. > I didn't compile kernel with buildroot, since kernel requires couple > patches, and also the sources are downloaded from freescale, not kernel.org( > https://github.com/koliqi/imx23-olinuxino/blob/master/Building%20a%20kernel%20%20for%20the%20OLinuXino.md > ). Ok. It is most likely possible to get this kernel built with Buildroot, but let's compile it separately first and get it working this way. > I'm not that proficient with buildroot (or building kernels) that I know > how to enable buildroot to compile this "custom kernel".. Do you see this > making my life much more difficult if I compile kernel separately ? No. > I checked my kernel config, and it seems it has this flag enabled: > CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y > However: # CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT is not set > > In buildroot, I didn't change the /dev management, so it's currently set as > "static using device table". I guess there is a mismatch now.. If you're using "static using device table", then CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y is not needed, but it's harmless to have it. How do you install your root filesystem on the target? Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com