Re: Question - example on building a self-installing image

[Gylstorff Quirin <quirin.gylstorff@siemens.com>]

On 1/3/24 19:59, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 03.01.24 18:17, John W wrote:
>> Hi Isar team,
>>
>> Is there any example on building a self-installing image to a x86
>> machine? I've found the following post online:
>> https://www.thegoodpenguin.co.uk/blog/self-installing-yocto-image-from-a-usb-drive/
>> However it does not seem trivial to use the same approach in isar so
>> wondering if there's any existing example for this.
>>
> 
> Nothing public yet, but Quirin has created something like that
> internally. Not sure about plans to publish or upstream that, though.

I created an separate installer image which uses bmap/dd to install the 
given wic image to a harddisk on the device.


Quirin

> 
> And then we have another approach in [1] which generally works as well -
> but not in all cases. Its idea is to replicate and individualize the
> content of an external media on first boot.
> 
> Jan
> 
> [1]
> https://github.com/siemens/meta-iot2050/tree/master/recipes-core/install-on-emmc
>