I have a related post, but I thought it would be best to make this a separate topic @hfranco.tx .
I’d like to try flashing the default TorizonCore image to my Apalis i.MX8’s eMMC via TEZI, but have Torizon’s initramfs crash into a shell for me to poke around, instead of continuing with the bootup. This would allow me to manually find, and switch_root to a Torizon rootfs on a connected SSD.
I’ve successfully done this in the past with my own image by using
devtool modify initramfs-framework
and simply modifying the source file “rootfs” to include a
exec sh
somewhere in the script. (added benefit that I am still PID 1 in this case)
However, the same strategy gives me the following warnings when I attempt to run the devtool modify command in my Torizon build directory:
$ devtool modify initramfs-framework
NOTE: Starting bitbake server...
INFO: Creating workspace layer in /home/kinnard/Documents/Torizon/build-torizon/workspace
NOTE: Reconnecting to bitbake server...
NOTE: Retrying server connection (#1)...
WARNING: /home/kinnard/Documents/Torizon/build-torizon/conf/../../layers/meta-toradex-torizon/recipes-images/images/torizon-core-lite.bb: Failed to get layers information. Exception: <class 'bb.process.ExecutionError'>
WARNING: /home/kinnard/Documents/Torizon/build-torizon/conf/../../layers/meta-toradex-torizon/recipes-images/images/torizon-core-podman.bb: Failed to get layers information. Exception: <class 'bb.process.ExecutionError'>
WARNING: /home/kinnard/Documents/Torizon/build-torizon/conf/../../layers/meta-toradex-torizon/recipes-images/images/torizon-core-docker.bb: Failed to get layers information. Exception: <class 'bb.process.ExecutionError'>
WARNING: /home/kinnard/Documents/Torizon/build-torizon/conf/../../layers/meta-security/recipes-security/images/security-test-image.bb: Failed to get layers information. Exception: <class 'bb.process.ExecutionError'>
WARNING: /home/kinnard/Documents/Torizon/build-torizon/conf/../../layers/meta-security/recipes-security/images/security-build-image.bb: Failed to get layers information. Exception: <class 'bb.process.ExecutionError'>
WARNING: /home/kinnard/Documents/Torizon/build-torizon/conf/../../layers/meta-security/recipes-security/images/security-server-image.bb: Failed to get layers information. Exception: <class 'bb.process.ExecutionError'>
WARNING: /home/kinnard/Documents/Torizon/build-torizon/conf/../../layers/meta-security/recipes-security/images/security-client-image.bb: Failed to get layers information. Exception: <class 'bb.process.ExecutionError'>
WARNING: /home/kinnard/Documents/Torizon/build-torizon/conf/../../layers/meta-security/recipes-core/images/dm-verity-image-initramfs.bb: Failed to get layers information. Exception: <class 'bb.process.ExecutionError'>
etc... for pretty much every bb file.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
*Edit: I’ve likewise not found a solution using the Torizon Builder Tool to accomplish the same task.