From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 23:51:54 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Building bootable usb drive for target board with ext2 In-Reply-To: References: <20150612211031.3a684e7d@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <20150612235154.1a723af5@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Patricia Holden, On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 17:49:57 -0400, Patricia Holden wrote: > Ok, so I'm still not quite out of the woods. I copied over the boot > directory from output to my usb drive, copied bzImage to usb drive. It > hangs on target. Do I need to edit grub files for the usb? Do I need to > install grub instead of copying? Sorry for such mundane questions, but I'm > just getting back into the linux world and my mind is a bit foggy. You need to install grub on your USB drive. See the instructions in the grub option help text, also visible at: http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/tree/boot/grub/Config.in#n8 The instructions are done on a disk image, but it can be done directly on a real drive in a similar way. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com