[linux-yocto] Qemuarm image fails to boot successfully ; stuck at scsi

[New B]

Hi,

Build Env: yocto 1.5.1 final, running on ubuntu 12.10

Build system is intact.  I followed the quickstart quide and was able to build and run a core-image-minimal for MACHINE ?= "qemuarm"

I, then, followed the instructions to create and add my new bsp layer using "yocto-bsp create sampleBSP qemu", choosing 'arm' as the qemu architecture; default yocto-kernel (3.10); no new machine branch (for now); and default choices for the rest with the exception of having a touchscreen.

I added my layer to the default set of bblayers in build/conf/ after the meta-yocto-bsp, and built the minimal image.

I executed runqemu qemuarm <path to zImage.bin> <path to rootfs.ext3>

====> kernel does not boot successfully and is stuck in a loop resetting the scsi bus.  The last thing that shows prior to scsi rest loop is:

PCI: enabling device 0000:00:0d.0 (0100 -> 0103)
sym0: <895a> rev 0x0 at pci 0000:00:0d.0 irq 93
sym0: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-40, LVD, parity checking
sym0: SCSI BUS has been reset.
scsi0: sym-2.2.3

BTW: i rebuilt and successfully booted the standard qemuarm after these failures and setting MACHINE ?= "qemuarm" instead of MACHINE ?= "sampleBSP".  The meta-layer for sampleBSP is at the same dir level as meta-yocto-bsp 

I would really appreciate any help.  I have been stuck for a couple of days, googling and reading doc' and literally backing out each line (including comments !)  i added to the point where i have a meta-sampleBSP/conf/machine/sampleBSP.conf that matches exactly yocto's qemuarm.conf, and doing clean builds: no dice!  The closest i got was that ppl saying it was 

Thanks!