i've been fighting with this for a few days, so i'm going to describe what i'm *trying* to do, and if someone has a solution, terrific; in the meantime, i'm going to ask specific questions about particular recipe and class files, since i think i see all the *pieces* i want, i just don't know how to put them together to *get* what i want.
the scenario: powerpc target board, for which we already have working u-boot, kernel and rootfs, and which will have u-boot already installed as the basis for further adventures. as i *see* it, what i want to do is (and i'm willing to be corrected) build a basic kernel with an integrated initramfs that is loaded with installation utilities (fdisk, parted, mkfs, etc, etc.), and whose job it is to then fetch (from somewhere) the installable contents and load up the hard drive, then maybe use fw_setenv to tweak the u-boot env variables, and reboot to the full system. make sense so far? also, since it's ppc and u-boot, there's nothing grub or EFI related i will need, correct? finally, i'd love to be able to test this on a qemuppc image first, so if there's a quick way to build a recipe that does this for qemuppc, that would be ducky. as i see it, there are a number of images under both recipes-core and recipes-extended (those "testmaster" images) i've been looking at that seem to be relevant, but i've yet to find a combination that works. so i'm going to leave this very general description of what i'm after here, and follow up with more specific questions about some of those recipes, and about qemu sessions. and if someone already has a pointer to do all this, well, we're done. rday p.s. if i can get a general solution to this that is not written up elsewhere, i will be delighted to write it up for public consumption so everyone else can take advantage. -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto