error: no such option 'partition-table-type'

[Sourabh1107]

Hello,

I am facing an issue while using genimage.cfg in one of my project with Buildroot build system. My genimage.cfg looks like:

image sdcard.img {
        hdimage {
                partition-table-type = "mbr"
                extended-partition = 3
        }

        partition ubootenv0 {
                image = "uboot-env.bin"
                in-partition-table = false
                offset = 1M
        }

But I am getting an error like:

[...]/genimage.cfg:41: no such option 'partition-table-type'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:827: target-post-image] Error 1
make: *** [Makefile:23: _all] Error 2

The genimage.cfg is part of post-image.sh and is called like GENIMAGE_CFG="${BOARD_DIR}/genimage.cfg".

Can anyone please let me know how to resolve this issue?

Your help will be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

[michaelolbrich]

Maybe your genimage version is too old? This option was introduced in version 15. Use gpt = true for older genimage versions.

[Sourabh1107]

Hello @michaelolbrich Thanks for the quick reply. Yes, I think so.

The genimage --version returned 14. How can I upgrade version 15?

[michaelolbrich]

That needs to happen somewhere in Buildroot. So you need to talk to the Buildroot people about that.

[Sourabh1107]

Hello @michaelolbrich I changed partition-table-type = "mbr" to gpt = true and also included partition-type-uuid = "L". But again I am getting no such option 'partition-type-uuid'.

If I remove partition-type-uuid = "L", then I am getting:

INFO: hdimage(sdcard.img): adding partition 'ubootenv0' from 'uboot-env.bin' ...
INFO: hdimage(sdcard.img): adding partition 'ubootenv1' from 'uboot-env.bin' ...
INFO: hdimage(sdcard.img): adding partition 'boot0' (in MBR) from 'boot.vfat' ...
INFO: hdimage(sdcard.img): adding partition 'boot1' from 'boot.vfat' ...
INFO: hdimage(sdcard.img): adding partition 'rescue' (in MBR) from 'rootfs.squashfs' ...
INFO: hdimage(sdcard.img): adding partition 'rootfs0' (in MBR) from 'rootfs.ext4' ...
INFO: hdimage(sdcard.img): writing EBR
INFO: hdimage(sdcard.img): adding partition 'rootfs1' (in MBR) from 'rootfs.ext4' ...
INFO: hdimage(sdcard.img): writing EBR
INFO: hdimage(sdcard.img): adding partition 'upload' (in MBR) from 'upload.ext4' ...
INFO: hdimage(sdcard.img): writing EBR
INFO: hdimage(sdcard.img): adding partition 'data' (in MBR) from 'data.ext4' ...
INFO: hdimage(sdcard.img): writing EBR
INFO: hdimage(sdcard.img): writing GPT
ERROR: hdimage(sdcard.img): hybrid MBR partitions (6) exceeds maximum of 3
INFO: hdimage(sdcard.img): cmd: "rm -f "/root/raspcm4/sources/output/images/sdcard.img"" (stderr):
ERROR: hdimage(sdcard.img): failed to generate sdcard.img
make[1]: *** [Makefile:827: target-post-image] Error 1
make: *** [Makefile:23: _all] Error 2

Genimage.cfg looks like:

image sdcard.img {
    hdimage {
        #partition-table-type = mbr
                gpt = true
        extended-partition = 3
    }

    partition ubootenv0 {
        image = "uboot-env.bin"
        in-partition-table = false
        offset = 1M
    }

    partition ubootenv1 {
        image = "uboot-env.bin"
        in-partition-table = false
        offset = 2M
    }

    partition boot0 {
        partition-type = 0xC
        bootable = true
        image = "boot.vfat"
        # Leave room for U-Boot environment
        offset = 4M
    }

    partition boot1 {
        image = "boot.vfat"
        in-partition-table = false
        # 256M + 4M
        offset = 260M
    }

    partition rescue {
        partition-type = 0x83
        image = "rootfs.squashfs"
        size = 256M
    }

    partition rootfs0 {
        partition-type = 0x83
        image = "rootfs.ext4"
        size = 900M
    }

    partition rootfs1 {
        partition-type = 0x83
        image = "rootfs.ext4"
        size = 900M
    }

    partition upload {
        partition-type = 0x83
        image = "upload.ext4"
        size = 900M
    }

    partition data {
        partition-type = 0x83
        image = "data.ext4"
        size = 128M
    }
}

Is there any other way to with older version of genimage?

Your help will be much appreciated.

[michaelolbrich]

Where did you add the partition-type-uuid? It should be supported in version 14. And don't use partition-type with GPT. It enables the hybrid method and that does not allow more than 3 partitions.

[Sourabh1107]

Hello @michaelolbrich I have set partition-type-uuid = "L" in

hdimage {
        #partition-table-type = mbr
                gpt = true
                partition-type-uuid = "L"
        extended-partition = 3
    }

Is it safe to remove partition-type = 0x83 ? What effect will it have?

[michaelolbrich]

The partition-type-uuid is the GPT equivalent to partition-type for MBR. So replace partition-type with partition-type-uuid in each partition and don't set it in the hdimage section.