dm-verity and beaglebone-black ------------------------------ Set/uncomment the MACHINE line for "beaglebone-yocto" if you haven't yet. In addition to the basic dm-verity settings, you'll also want in local.conf: IMAGE_BOOT_FILES:remove = "zImage" IMAGE_BOOT_FILES:append = " zImage-initramfs-${MACHINE}.bin;zImage" WKS_FILES = "${MACHINE}-verity.wks.in" Read-only issues: The beaglebone BSP by default declares the following: SERIAL_CONSOLES ?= "115200;ttyS0 115200;ttyO0 115200;ttyAMA0" SERIAL_CONSOLES_CHECK = "${SERIAL_CONSOLES}" ...which are variables used by sysV init, in order to determine the appropriate /etc/inittab entries. The problem that arises is that by default, an on-target runtime check of /proc/consoles is used to finalize the /etc/inittab -- and of course that fails a build with read-only-rootfs [see the pkg_postinst_ontarget rule in the sysvinit rule for details.] If you don't need a serial console, the quick fix is to add in local.conf SERIAL_CONSOLES = "" If you do need/want a serial console, then probably a local bbappend to manually set the /etc/inittab as desired is easiest. After running "wic create -e core-image-minimal beaglebone-yocto-verity" you should have a "direct" image ready to write to a u-SD card. Remember that the "direct" image contains the bootloader and partition table already, so you'll be writing it to a device such as /dev/sdb and not just a partition -- like /dev/sdb1 Also recall that booting from u-SD requires pressing and holding the S2 (SYSBOOT) button during power-on in order to divert the boot from the normal soldered on storage and to the removable u-SD card.