Commit 61834683 authored by Noé Rubinstein's avatar Noé Rubinstein Committed by Thomas Petazzoni
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docs/manual/beyond-buildroot: building and testing live-CDs 



[Thomas: reworked a bit the phrasing, plus mention that Grub 2 is
supported.]

Signed-off-by: default avatarNoé Rubinstein <nrubinstein@aldebaran.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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docs/manual/beyond-buildroot.txt

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Then, you can execute a NFS-boot from your target.



==== Live CD



To build a live CD image, enable the _iso image_ option in the

_Filesystem images_ menu. Note that this option is only available on

the x86 and x86-64 architectures, and if you are building your kernel

with Buildroot.



You can build a live CD image with either IsoLinux, Grub or Grub 2 as

a bootloader, but only Isolinux supports making this image usable both

as a live CD and live USB (through the _Build hybrid image_ option).



You can test your live CD image using QEMU:



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qemu-system-i386 -cdrom output/images/rootfs.iso9660

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Or use it as a hard-drive image if it is an hybrid ISO:



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qemu-system-i386 -hda output/images/rootfs.iso9660

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It can be easily flashed to an USB drive with +dd+:



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dd if=output/images/rootfs.iso9660 of=/dev/sdb

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=== Chroot



If you want to chroot in a generated image, then there are few thing