[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
Intel Open Source Technology Centre



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