CentOS 7: Build buildroot and run QEMU


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1 Download buildroot

Download buildroot 2016.02 released version.

$ wget https://buildroot.org/downloads/buildroot-2016.02.tar.bz2

You can download also git repository’s one.

$ git clone https://git.busybox.net/buildroot/

2 Build buildroot

Use qemu_x86_defconfig for qemu-system-i386.

Change tty1 to ttyS0 for using QEMU nographic option.

$ tar jxf buildroot-2016.02.tar.bz2$ cd buildroot-2016.02/$ make qemu_x86_defconfig$ sed -i -e ‘s/BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY_PORT=”tty1″/BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY_PORT=”ttyS0″/g’ .config$ make

3 Run QEMU

Install qemu-system-x86 in EPEL repository.

$ sudo yum install -y epel-release$ sudo yum update$ sudo yum install -y qemu-system-x86

Run QEMU with kernel output/images/bzImage and rootfs output/images/rootfs.ext2.

Add noapic option to kernel because APIC initialization is errored.

$ qemu-system-i386 –kernel output/images/bzImage –hda output/images/rootfs.ext2 –nographic –append “console=ttyS0 root=/dev/sda noapic”Linux version 4.4.1 (hiroom2@centos-7) (gcc version 4.9.3 (Buildroot2016.02) ) #1 SMP Fri May 27 17:07:40 JST 2016×86/fpu: Legacy x87 FPU detected.x86/fpu: Using ‘lazy’ FPU context switches.e820: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:<snip>Welcome to Buildrootbuildroot login: root#

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