[Buildroot] [RFC] How to handle targets that need more than one file system to boot?

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Thu Jan 3 08:57:02 UTC 2013


Dear Arnout Vandecappelle,

On Thu, 03 Jan 2013 09:53:40 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:

>   AFAIK there is no equivalent of genext2fs for FAT, so it would be 
> rather difficult to make a boot-vfat.img in buildroot (use sudo?
> fuse? pmount?).

You have the mtools, see http://www.gnu.org/software/mtools/.

Also, see the genimage tool from Pengutronix people:
http://www.pengutronix.de/software/genimage/download/.

Thomas
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