Hi,

I'm using Buildroot to create a cross-compilation toolchain and a root filesystem for an EBOX computer (basically its just an old 486 used in an embedded application) with no hard drive. It has a flash card onto which Linux is copied and it boots a clean Linux everytime.

I inherited this project from a previous guy who left the company I work at and he cant help me all that much.

The whole thing works fine as it is, but I now I need to add some stuff to the root filesystem so that the app I've coded will execute automatically when the EBOX boots up.

I use this guide for Buildroot : Buildroot - Usage and documentation

I'm not changing any settings in 'make menuconfig'. For starters I just want to create a dummy file/directory to see if it shows up when Linux boots up on the EBOX. I first tried to edit 'project_build_ARCH/root/' (as described in the guide) by just adding a textfile with a message in it in the home directory, and then simply ran 'make' again but it ignored the changes I made.

I then tried to edit 'target/generic/target_skeleton/' in same way but it also ignored the changes?

What am I doing wrong??