From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:39:07 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] /dev files not being created correctly In-Reply-To: <204928.46075.qm@web43412.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> (Mark Fisher's message of "Tue\, 14 Apr 2009 06\:55\:14 -0700 \(PDT\)") References: <204928.46075.qm@web43412.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <87eivua32c.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Mark" == Mark Fisher writes: Mark> Hi, Mark> I'm relatively new to buildroot and am using the 2009.02 Mark> release of buildroot on a Fedora 9 platform and targeting an Mark> embedded device with an Intel Atom processor. Mark> When the root filesystem is built the types of the files are Mark> all set to plain text files. So for instance the /dev/console Mark> is not set to be a character device. This has already create Mark> problems when I try to boot because the console could not be Mark> opened. I manually fixed /dev/console and /dev/null. I'm still Mark> having trouble booting the image and also after a re-build my Mark> custom changes were lost. You shouldn't use the project_build_arm/*/root directory to boot from NFS. The /dev entries are normal files as we don't want to require root rights while building. Instead create a tarball (target filesystem options->tar the root filesystem) and extract that (found under binaries/) as root on your nfs server. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard