Re: embedded rootfs utility

2008-08-14 Thread Grant Likely
Hey Behan, a few more comments... On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Behan Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: Thanks for this useful tool! I'm used to plain debootstrap, but decided to give your elbs-rootfs a try for creating up a mipsel and a powerpc NFS root file

Re: embedded rootfs utility

2008-08-14 Thread Behan Webster
Grant Likely wrote: Hey Behan, a few more comments... On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Behan Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: Thanks for this useful tool! I'm used to plain debootstrap, but decided to give your elbs-rootfs a try for creating up a mipsel

Re: embedded rootfs utility

2008-08-14 Thread Behan Webster
Grant Likely wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Behan Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant Likely wrote: Also, when booting on something like a 5200 with an uncommon serial ports name (ttyPSC0), I had to manually add the /dev/ttyPSC0 device file before it would boot.

Re: embedded rootfs utility

2008-08-14 Thread Behan Webster
Grant Likely wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Behan Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant Likely wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Behan Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant Likely wrote: Also, when booting on something like a 5200 with an

Re: embedded rootfs utility

2008-08-08 Thread Behan Webster
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: Thanks for this useful tool! I'm used to plain debootstrap, but decided to give your elbs-rootfs a try for creating up a mipsel and a powerpc NFS root file system. It worked fine, except for one minor nit. As an NFS root file system is mounted read-only by default, I

Re: embedded rootfs utility

2008-08-06 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
Hi Behan, On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Behan Webster wrote: However, most notably it contains a utility called elbs-rootfs which makes it easy to create an embedded rootfs for any architecture supported by the Debian projecy (or Ubuntu Linux). The idea is to get a rootfs up and working

Re: embedded rootfs utility

2008-07-30 Thread Marco Stornelli
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:18:37PM -0400, Behan Webster wrote: A quick announcement of the release of elbs, or the Embedded Linux Build System (it seemed like a good name at the time I started writing it...) So far it's just a few utilities that I wrote to make a few of my own projects

Re: embedded rootfs utility

2008-07-30 Thread Behan Webster
Marco Stornelli wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:18:37PM -0400, Behan Webster wrote: A quick announcement of the release of elbs, or the Embedded Linux Build System (it seemed like a good name at the time I started writing it...) So far it's just a few utilities that I wrote to make a few