[Buildroot] [PATCH/next] configs/pc: add a configuration to build a UEFI+GPT image

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Thu Sep 6 19:30:27 UTC 2018


Hello,

On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 23:31:55 -0300, Carlos Santos wrote:
> This is ane example of how to craft a disk image with GPT partitioning
> instead of MBR. This is achieved by means of a post-image script which
> uses mkdosfs+mcopy+sfdisk, since genimage is unable to deal with GPT.
> 
> The script was kept as simple as possible to make it easy to understand
> and adapt for other purposes.
> 
> The root filesystem location is passed to the kernel by a partition
> UUID, so the it is possible to boot on QEMU, directly from the disk
> image, or dump the image to a physical device.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Carlos Santos <casantos at datacom.com.br>

Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com>

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