[Buildroot] How to use a buildroot disk image.

[Philippe Ney]

> > > I'm really sorry if I missed this in the documentation, but how do I
> > > install the file system image to an actual disk drive.  I have tried
> > > using dd to write it to the disk as super block and also just to the
> > > first partition, but this has not worked.  Thanks in advance.
> > 
> > Depends on the fs type you generated.
> > 
> > If you generate an ISO image, you could burn it on a cdrom or run it with
> > qemu. And if you generate an ext2 fs, you would access it through a loop
> > device for example.
> 
> Fancy enough, qemu can also use the ext2 fs image to boot from I found out.

Ah ok. I never tried it.
I thought using the ext2 fs with uml but forgot to write it...