summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/docs/manual/using.txt
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/manual/using.txt')
-rw-r--r--docs/manual/using.txt3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/manual/using.txt b/docs/manual/using.txt
index 6e144d0dd..857aa333b 100644
--- a/docs/manual/using.txt
+++ b/docs/manual/using.txt
@@ -86,7 +86,8 @@ This directory contains several subdirectories:
* +target/+ which contains 'almost' the complete root filesystem for
the target: everything needed is present except the device files in
+/dev/+ (Buildroot can't create them because Buildroot doesn't run
- as root and doesn't want to run as root). Therefore, this directory
+ as root and doesn't want to run as root). Also, it doesn't have the correct
+ permissions (e.g. setuid for the busybox binary). Therefore, this directory
*should not be used on your target*. Instead, you should use one of
the images built in the +images/+ directory. If you need an
extracted image of the root filesystem for booting over NFS, then