buildrootschalter/docs/manual/beyond-buildroot.txt
Thomas De Schampheleire 569db40574 manual: high-level restructuring
The structure of the buildroot manual is not always clear. There is a large
number of chapters, and some chapters seem to overlap. The distinction
between general usage and developer information is not always clear.

This patch restructures the manual into four large parts:
- getting started
- user guide
- developer guide
- appendix

Except for the names of these parts, the section names are not yet changed.
Content-wise there are no changes yet either. This will be handled in
subsequent patches.

In order to achieve the introduction of a new level 'parts' above
'chapters', the section indicators (=, ==, ===, ...) of several sections
have to be moved one level down. Additionally, the leveloffset indication to
asciidoc has to be removed. Finally, to maintain more or less the same level
of detail in the table of contents, the toc.section.depth attribute is
reduced as well. Note that for some sections, less detail is visible now.

Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2014-08-17 21:09:52 +02:00

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== Beyond Buildroot
=== Boot the generated images
==== NFS boot
To achieve NFS-boot, enable _tar root filesystem_ in the _Filesystem
images_ menu.
After a complete build, just run the following commands to setup the
NFS-root directory:
-------------------
sudo tar -xavf /path/to/output_dir/rootfs.tar -C /path/to/nfs_root_dir
-------------------
Remember to add this path to +/etc/exports+.
Then, you can execute a NFS-boot from your target.
=== Chroot
If you want to chroot in a generated image, then there are few thing
you should be aware of:
* you should setup the new root from the _tar root filesystem_ image;
* either the selected target architecture is compatible with your host
machine, or you should use some +qemu-*+ binary and correctly set it
within the +binfmt+ properties to be able to run the binaries built
for the target on your host machine;
* Buildroot does not currently provide +host-qemu+ and +binfmt+
correctly built and set for that kind of use.