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| -rw-r--r-- | meta/classes/bootimg.bbclass | 22 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/meta/classes/bootimg.bbclass b/meta/classes/bootimg.bbclass index 5e838db56c..2de8d50934 100644 --- a/meta/classes/bootimg.bbclass +++ b/meta/classes/bootimg.bbclass @@ -1,12 +1,25 @@ -# bootimg.oeclass # Copyright (C) 2004, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. All Rights Reserved # Released under the MIT license (see packages/COPYING) -# This creates a bootable image using syslinux, your kernel and an optional +# Creates a bootable image using syslinux, your kernel and an optional # initrd -# External variables needed +# +# End result is two things: +# +# 1. A .hddimage file which is an msdos filesystem containing syslinux, a kernel, +# an initrd and a rootfs image. These can be written to harddisks directly and +# also booted on USB flash disks (write them there with dd). +# +# 2. A CD .iso image + +# Boot process is that the initrd will boot and process which label was selected +# in syslinux. Actions based on the label are then performed (e.g. installing to +# an hdd) + +# External variables # ${INITRD} - indicates a filesystem image to use as an initrd (optional) +# ${ROOTFS} - indicates a filesystem image to include as the root filesystem (optional) # ${AUTO_SYSLINUXCFG} - set this to 1 to enable creating an automatic config # ${LABELS} - a list of targets for the automatic config # ${APPEND} - an override list of append strings for each label @@ -19,11 +32,12 @@ do_bootimg[depends] += "dosfstools-native:do_populate_sysroot \ cdrtools-native:do_populate_sysroot" PACKAGES = " " +EXCLUDE_FROM_WORLD = "1" HDDDIR = "${S}/hdd/boot" ISODIR = "${S}/cd/isolinux" -BOOTIMG_VOLUME_ID ?= "oe" +BOOTIMG_VOLUME_ID ?= "boot" BOOTIMG_EXTRA_SPACE ?= "512" # Get the build_syslinux_cfg() function from the syslinux class |