> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:yocto- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul D. DeRocco > Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 4:06 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [yocto] Perplexed by boot mechanism > > I'm trying to get a core-image-base-cedartrail-nopvr image to boot from an > eUSB SSD on an Intel Atom mobo. I'm following the instructions in > > <https://www.yoctoproject.org/download/intel-atom-n2600n2800d2550- > wnm10-chip > set-cedar-trail> > > which tell me to dd the .hddimg file onto the flash drive. But apparently, the > image isn't an image of a regular bootable system drive, but is a "live image" > of a smaller system that can either boot the real system from a virtualized file > system in RAM whose image is read from a single file in the first level, or it > can install the real system to a different drive. > (Correct me if I'm mistaken about any of this.) > > What's the point of all this? It seems like a completely unnecessary layer of > complexity and inefficiency. I have a very vague understanding of the whole > concept of running a live image off a virtual file system, and it seems to make > sense when you're booting off a readonly medium like a DVD, but this is a > writable flash drive. Why doesn't the .hddimg file just contain the real target > root file system partition in it? Or is that what some of those other files in the > build/tmp/deploy/images directory represent? If the latter, is there a way I > can just directly create the flash drive the way it will ultimately be used in the > final system, without using this "live image" stuff? > > I'd really like to be able to create the flash, mount it under Ubuntu, and not > see the five files the implement the live image, but see the full root file > system of my target. > > -- > > Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco > Paul mailto:[email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > yocto mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
Paul, I think you want to use the ext3 image not the live image (.hddimg). If you follow the steps to install the ext 3 image on your boot drive, you will see all the root files systems on the drive in another distro like Ubuntu . Regards, Sean Liming _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
