Building a Lite live USB with busybox installed for system repair
by Toph_82 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6KSRZ)
Iim working on an embedded system running a stripped down version of Linux 3.4.43. It has an Allwinner a13 processor and 128mb of RAM. It was developed off of an Olimex board from the best I can tell from my research. The board boots into Uboot and then the Linux kernel starts. After a short time it fails and cannot proceed any further. Upon connecting via serial, I can see that when it gets to mmcblk0p2, it fails. I am provided with the message that running fsck is recommended, at that point. But with the partition being mounted, I am unable to utilize Busybox to run fsck on the board. After speaking with others, it was recommended to build a bootable USB running only a rootfs with Busybox on it and then running fsck from there. The problem is that I am lost, as this is my first adventure into the world of Linux. I know I would be further ahead to just run a sbc with more power but, Iim a tinkerer and enjoy doing things to learn something. If anyone has any guides for dummies, Iid be appreciative of any assistance in getting this assembled. Thank you in advance, Chris