On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 02:23:05AM +0000, Lee, Chee Yang wrote: > Hi Tom, > > Would you mind to share with me how you make the installer image using wic?
I ended up using sdimage-bootpart.wks and IMAGE_BOOT_FILES to populate the partition as needed. I can't paste the exact image as it was done for a customer. > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: Tom Rini <tr...@konsulko.com> > To: chee.yang....@intel.com > Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org > Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 0/4] add wic based image installer > Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 11:33:43 -0400 > > On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 02:40:58PM +0800, chee.yang....@intel.com > wrote: > > > From: Chee Yang Lee <chee.yang....@intel.com> > > > > Existing installable image (hddimg/ISO) has limit of 4GB size, so to > > build larger installable image, we can build it in wic based image. > > > > 2 partition needed for installable image > > - first partition build using source plugin bootimg-efi and > > configure to run install > > - second partition build with root.img, systemd-boot and kernel to > > be install on target machine (this partition build using new source > > plugin installer-partition) > > > > These patches: > > - add new source plugin for second partition > > - add new .wks > > - add new wic dependency and set default value for required variable > > - allow source plugin bootimg-efi to configure to install > > > > > > To build the image, set WKS_FILE="wic-installer.wks.in" in > > local.conf. > > I'm confused as to why we need most of these changes to support the end > goal. The enhancement to bootimg-efi makes conceptual sense. I don't > see why we need a new plugin to do the rest, however. What's being > done > here that we don't already do today? I say this having made installer > images for EFI machines using wic (in sumo, even). Thanks! > > -- > Tom > -- > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core > > > -- Tom
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