[yocto] Live images?
Paul Eggleton
paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com
Thu Jun 5 08:07:02 PDT 2014
On Thursday 05 June 2014 08:41:57 Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 2014-06-05 08:32, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > On Thursday 05 June 2014 15:26:28 Paul Eggleton wrote:
> >> Hi Gary,
> >>
> >> On Thursday 05 June 2014 07:07:34 Gary Thomas wrote:
> >>> Looking through the Poky/Yocto sources, there seems to be
> >>> some support for Live CD/USB images. However, I can't find
> >>> any examples nor documentation for how to use this.
> >>>
> >>> Can anyone provide some pointers?
> >>
> >> You're right, we seem to be missing that in our documentation; I'm not
> >> sure
> >> where the best place to document it would be though.
> >>
> >> FYI, you should just need to ensure "live" is in IMAGE_FSTYPES; then you
> >> should get a .directdisk image that you can just dd to a USB stick.
> >
> > Of course I meant to say .hddimg, not .directdisk.
>
> Thanks, I'll give that a try.
>
> What if I needed to boot from an actual CD? I have an old
> box here I'd like to try, but it doesn't boot from USB.
We can produce ISO images but I don't think that they work quite as well,
e.g.:
https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5282
You could always try it though.
Cheers,
Paul
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Paul Eggleton
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