voipwala hindustani wrote:
> Hello Astlinux experts,
>
> Forgive me if this is a very trivial question.
>
> I am trying to build the astlinux using the new build
> environment and then plan to write this to a CF card as bootable astlinux.
> I was able to do the build by copying astlinux.config as .config
> and compiling the stuff.
> Now my problem is. how do i create the CF image.
> I tried by selecting ext2 as filesystem for target device in the
> "make menuconfig" GUI and then I got rootfs.i586.ext2. Then I wrote this
> to a flash card using DiskImg utility. But this CF card is unable to
> boot. But when I try to directly download the geni586.img for the flash
> card from the site for Astlinux 0.3 and write it to flash card using
> DiskImg, then it is bootable and had no problems.
>
> But I need the flexibility of building this myself in order to
> add some more packages...What am i missing in creating CF image ?
>
> Thank you very much in advance.
>
> Regards
> voipwala
>
voipwala,
This is what we need! The image will need to be fixed up a little
(symlinks, permission fixes, etc) but we need to create an actual
CF/disk image and install GRUB on it. We can then place the files from
build_i586/root in it.
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Kristian Kielhofner
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