[Buildroot] How can I boot my custom system?

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sun Sep 12 21:10:48 UTC 2010


On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:18:07 +0800
icemanpro <icemanpro at gmail.com> wrote:

>  I download buildroot on Fedora 13 and
> 
> 1) tar -xvzf buildroot-2010.08.tar.gz
> 
> 2) cd buildroot-2010.08
> 
> 3) make menuconfig
> - no changes at all made to default options
> - save on exit
> 
> 4) make --> OK. rootfs.ext2 created in output/images
> 
> 
> Now,it this finish? How to boot my custom system?

It depends. You can boot it on real hardware, you can boot in a virtual
machine emulator such as Qemu.

However, by default, Buildroot does not configure and build a kernel
for you, so you'll have to tell it to build a kernel for the hardware
you are targeting.

Without more precisions from you, it's hard to give a detailed set of
steps to follow.

Regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
development, consulting, training and support.
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