From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH/next] configs/pc: add a configuration to build a UEFI+GPT image
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 21:30:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180906213027.2f2e18b2@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180831023155.26475-1-casantos@datacom.com.br>
Hello,
On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 23:31:55 -0300, Carlos Santos wrote:
> This is ane example of how to craft a disk image with GPT partitioning
> instead of MBR. This is achieved by means of a post-image script which
> uses mkdosfs+mcopy+sfdisk, since genimage is unable to deal with GPT.
>
> The script was kept as simple as possible to make it easy to understand
> and adapt for other purposes.
>
> The root filesystem location is passed to the kernel by a partition
> UUID, so the it is possible to boot on QEMU, directly from the disk
> image, or dump the image to a physical device.
>
> Signed-off-by: Carlos Santos <casantos@datacom.com.br>
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
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2018-08-31 2:31 [Buildroot] [PATCH/next] configs/pc: add a configuration to build a UEFI+GPT image Carlos Santos
2018-09-06 19:29 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2018-09-06 19:30 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
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