[Buildroot] How to use a buildroot disk image.

Nathanael D. Noblet nathanael at gnat.ca
Wed Nov 1 22:24:29 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 22:23 +0100, Philippe Ney wrote:
> > I'm really sorry if I missed this in the documentation, but how do I
> > install the file system image to an actual disk drive.  I have tried
> > using dd to write it to the disk as super block and also just to the
> > first partition, but this has not worked.  Thanks in advance.
> 
> Depends on the fs type you generated.
> 
> If you generate an ISO image, you could burn it on a cdrom or run it with
> qemu. And if you generate an ext2 fs, you would access it through a loop
> device for example.

Fancy enough, qemu can also use the ext2 fs image to boot from I found out.

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Nathanael D. Noblet <nathanael at gnat.ca>
Gnat Solutions, Inc




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