From: Mark Constable <markc@renta.net>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] Creating a filesystem for QEMU
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:22:29 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AFC2835.9050000@renta.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200911121703.07478.cristeab@gmail.com>
Bogdan Cristea wrote:
> 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.
It's also possible to loop mount a qemu image if you do not
use -f qcow...
> qemu-img create qemu.img 4G
> mount -o loop,offset=32256 qemu.img /mnt
then, for instance, if you created a tarball from Buildroot
then you should be able to extract the tarball to a temp
directory and rsync -av /temp/ /mnt
I haven't tried this but it might work.
--markc
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-12 15:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-12 14:23 [Buildroot] Creating a filesystem for QEMU Bogdan Cristea
2009-11-12 14:58 ` Lionel Landwerlin
2009-11-12 15:03 ` Bogdan Cristea
2009-11-12 15:14 ` Lionel Landwerlin
2009-11-12 15:22 ` Mark Constable [this message]
2009-11-12 15:04 ` Chris Packham
[not found] ` <4AFC1FC8.3020305@gmail.com>
2009-11-13 13:18 ` Bogdan Cristea
2009-11-13 13:56 ` Lionel Landwerlin
2009-11-13 13:57 ` Lionel Landwerlin
2009-11-13 14:03 ` Chris Packham
2009-11-13 14:10 ` Lionel Landwerlin
[not found] ` <a038bef50911130559i31605c47k57d27e91d95b28f8@mail.gmail.com>
2009-11-13 14:46 ` Bogdan Cristea
2009-11-13 15:14 ` Chris Packham
2009-11-13 17:45 ` Bogdan Cristea
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