| 00:04.27 | CosmicPenguin | where bootable means... what? |
| 00:07.35 | blackmous | I'm trying to build a disk image that I can write to a compactflash chip using dd to boot a wrap board. bootable meaning bootloader, kernel, root fs. |
| 00:07.54 | blackmous | right now all I'm getting is the rootfs image |
| 00:09.43 | CosmicPenguin | thats really all you need |
| 00:10.25 | blackmous | I'm sure it's something simple I'm missing. I've even tried to get buildroot to create an ISO image which fails with cp: missing destination file operand after `... when trying to copy ....http://www.elinux.org/wiki/ |
| 00:10.29 | blackmous | how's that? |
| 00:11.26 | blackmous | how would I turn the rootfs file into a bootable disk image that I can write to the compact flash chip? |
| 00:11.56 | CosmicPenguin | well - bootable means different things to different systems |
| 00:12.27 | CosmicPenguin | in your case, you have a standard PC architecture, so you need a bootloader in between you and your root filesystem |
| 00:13.13 | CosmicPenguin | so you'll need to create a partition table, copy the filesystem to the CF card, and then install the bootloader of your choice |
| 00:14.06 | blackmous | O.k. does buildroot have the ability to put the bootloader in place for me into an image file? I see grub and syslinux bootloaders in the menu but they don't seem to do anything. |
| 00:14.36 | CosmicPenguin | no |
| 00:15.08 | blackmous | o.k. (that would explain why I can't get it to work lol) |
| 00:15.22 | CosmicPenguin | in both cases, additional work is required |
| 00:15.48 | CosmicPenguin | for syslinux, you'll need to create a DOS partition, and populate it with syslinux, the kernel image, and a configuration file |
| 00:17.02 | blackmous | o.k. what are you refering to by the kernel image? the rootfs file that buildroot outputs? or is that something else I'm going to have to compile? |
| 00:17.06 | CosmicPenguin | For grub, you'll need to install the rootfs on the CF, then install grub |
| 00:17.23 | blackmous | I'm liking grub already |
| 00:17.37 | CosmicPenguin | The kernel image is the bzImage |
| 00:17.48 | CosmicPenguin | Be aware that grub requires you to have the actual media on hand |
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| 00:18.26 | blackmous | I do, /dev/sda is my compact flash drive |
| 00:19.00 | CosmicPenguin | You won't be able to share your image with anybody else |
| 00:19.12 | CosmicPenguin | they'll have to do the same steps too - but if you're ok with that, then by all means, use grub |
| 00:21.09 | blackmous | once it's written to the compact flash drive, can't you load it on another compact flash chip by simply dd'ing the /dev/sda to a file, replace first chip with second chip and dd back to /dev/sda from file (assuming chip is same size or larger? |
| 00:21.41 | CosmicPenguin | no - because you cannot be positive that the geometry of the compact flashes match |
| 00:21.57 | CosmicPenguin | grub has to be manually installed on the phsyical media, because its very picky about things like that |
| 00:23.48 | blackmous | hmmm.. I've messed with me2000 (a sbc distro) and it uses grub for the boot loader. they just distribute the drive image and you write it to the disk using dd. I wonder how they're pulling it off. |
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| 00:53.40 | sunrunner20|prom | ddd |
| 01:05.00 | blackmous | where would I find the bzImage or how would I create it for a buildroot distro? |
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| 14:35.06 | chouimat|ibook | morening |
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| 17:44.41 | LyosNorezel | morning prpplague |
| 18:29.07 | prpplague | LyosNorezel: afternoon |
| 18:29.27 | LyosNorezel | heh |
| 18:29.35 | LyosNorezel | how goes it? |
| 18:33.11 | prpplague | ssdd |
| 18:33.19 | prpplague | just trying to do some packing |
| 18:33.30 | LyosNorezel | ssdd? |
| 18:33.43 | prpplague | same shit different day |
| 18:33.52 | LyosNorezel | ah |
| 18:40.15 | LyosNorezel | brb... gotta restart X |
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| 18:56.34 | LyosNorezel | Son of a B**** |
| 18:57.05 | LyosNorezel | now I remember why I refused to use SELinux for so long |
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| 20:21.40 | prpplague | i hate moving |
| 20:22.46 | chouimat | hi prpplague |
| 20:23.27 | prpplague | chouimat: hey |
| 20:24.15 | prpplague | ho ho hum |
| 20:24.35 | chouimat | I'm so bored today |
| 20:25.08 | prpplague | chouimat: you can use some tweezers to pull out your leg hairs.....thats alot of fun |
| 20:25.38 | chouimat | prpplague: I just used the powerstappler on my feet |
| 20:25.44 | prpplague | hehe |
| 20:25.59 | prpplague | chouimat: you ever do any linux kernel network drivers? |
| 20:26.11 | chouimat | prpplague: not often |
| 20:27.00 | chouimat | prpplague: currently doing USB crap ... the firmware ... and I hate the project ... since all the others programmer left :( |
| 20:27.12 | prpplague | chouimat: yea i hate usb as well |
| 20:27.17 | prpplague | chouimat: slave device? |
| 20:27.38 | chouimat | prpplague: CANopen usb dongle |
| 20:27.52 | prpplague | chouimat: url? |
| 20:28.08 | chouimat | prpplague: none yet ... commercial product ... |
| 20:28.14 | prpplague | ahh |
| 20:28.37 | chouimat | prpplague: and so far I'm sharing 50% of the development cost :( |
| 20:29.04 | prpplague | doh |
| 20:30.00 | chouimat | prpplague: yup ... and I told the religious paranoid freak I will only work part time on it ... not crazy enough ... |
| 20:30.34 | chouimat | hehe my cat is looking out the open window and doesn't like the wind outside |
| 20:30.35 | prpplague | hehe |
| 20:31.14 | chouimat | prpplague: wind gust (?) around 90 -95 km/h |
| 20:31.27 | prpplague | wow |
| 20:32.27 | LyosNorezel | heh |
| 20:32.57 | LyosNorezel | you're dreaming... cheap airfare... in this country? |
| 20:33.01 | LyosNorezel | hehe |
| 20:33.31 | chouimat | I doubt easyjet will give prpplague the choice he wants :) |
| 20:33.39 | LyosNorezel | heh |
| 20:37.41 | prpplague | hehe yea well, cheap is relative |
| 20:38.05 | prpplague | normal airfair is about $800, but if you shop right you can get it for aroun $475 |
| 20:38.17 | LyosNorezel | OUCH |
| 20:38.59 | prpplague | yea, then multiply that by 4 |
| 20:40.06 | prpplague | ho ho hum |
| 20:40.58 | LyosNorezel | heh |
| 20:41.10 | LyosNorezel | http://www.illwillpress.com/vault.html |
| 20:41.11 | chouimat | prpplague: cheap airfare also mean a few hours of "look at yours balls instead of yours knees" ;) |
| 20:42.21 | prpplague | chouimat: yea generally, but see they usually have pretty nice planes coming here as most people are on holiday |
| 20:42.45 | chouimat | prpplague: true |
| 20:43.08 | prpplague | chouimat: plus since we are getting one way tickets, we can go out on a plane thats coming in with tourists |
| 20:43.47 | chouimat | :) |
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