[yocto] Any Linux/Yocto Image Installer (for target system)

[Burton, Ross]

The relevant recipes are in meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/.

Ross

On 9 July 2018 at 04:10, Raymond Yeung <rksyeung at hotmail.com> wrote:

> This brings up the next logical question - where is the installer?  I'd
> already done a grep and looked into the volume of output.  You could ask
> why don't I read the code.  Yes, only if I know what I'm reading is the
> "correct" file/code.  Otherwise, I could be spending a lot of time reading
> a lot of unrelated codes.
>
>
> If I did "dd" of .hddimg to SSD, there's only 1 partition.  If I could
> locate where the logic is that generates this .hddimg file, perhaps I could
> figure out how it creates its single partition, and perhaps add one or more
> partitions to it as well.
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com>
> *Sent:* Saturday, July 7, 2018 3:39 PM
> *To:* Raymond Yeung
> *Cc:* yocto at yoctoproject.org
> *Subject:* Re: [yocto] Any Linux/Yocto Image Installer (for target system)
>
> The easiest thing would be to edit the installer script that goes into
> the hddimg to create your extra partitions and whatever else you want
> done.
>
> Ross
>
> On 6 July 2018 at 22:52, Raymond Yeung <rksyeung at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Is there any installer that I could download along with the .hddimg (or
> > .iso) image to the RAM, invoke the installer, so we could have a bootable
> > image installed on a SSD?
> >
> >
> > History:
> >
> > I can already create USB live image with dd and .hddimg.  I could also dd
> > the .hddimg onto SSD and make it bootable.  The problem is that I need
> > multiple partitions on my 250MB SSD, some reserved for other purposes.
> >
> >
> > I find that when booting up with USB running SysLinux, I could install
> GRUB,
> > vmlinuz, along with boot.img and core.img under /boot directory, and the
> > rootFs under root (i.e. '/') directory.  That's 4 partitions.  I believe
> I
> > could resize the largest partition after installation to do what I want.
> >
> >
> > Is there a way to do this manually, possibly with a utility or a shell
> > script?
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Raymond
> >
> >
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