[yocto] syslinux filesystem size limitation

Scott Garman scott.a.garman at intel.com
Thu Mar 15 08:25:55 PDT 2012


On 03/15/2012 06:07 AM, Joshua Immanuel wrote:
> Hello,
> 	In yocto I find that the live image (hddimg) is generated using
> syslinux (in bootimg.bbclass). But, I find there has been no check
> enforced to find whether the filesystem size exceeds 1 GB. The image
> will not boot if the hddimg size exceeds 1GB. This is due to the
> limitation in syslinux.
>
> How to address this issue? Is there any other alternate solution for
> this? Should I file a bug report for this?

Yes, this sounds worthy of filing a bug. Bonus points for patch 
submissions to fix it. ;)

Scott

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Scott Garman
Embedded Linux Engineer - Yocto Project
Intel Open Source Technology Center



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