[poky] Poky on "standard" PC

[Darren Hart]

On 01/24/2011 04:39 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 05:05 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> I wanted to try Poky on a spare laptop, so I went looking
>> for an appropriate configuration to build.
>>
>>   From 'README.hardware' (last updated 2010-12-16), I read:
>>     Poky Boot CD (bootcdx86)
>>     ========================
>>
>>     The Poky boot CD iso images are designed as a demonstration of the Poky
>>     environment and to show the versatile image formats Poky can generate. It will
>>     run on Pentium2 or greater PC style computers. The iso image can be
>>     burnt to CD and then booted from.
>>
>> When I tried it (it's also listed in the default local.conf),
>> I got this error:
>>     Please set TARGET_ARCH directly, or choose a MACHINE or DISTRO that does so.
>>     Please set a valid MACHINE in your local.conf
>>
>> There seems to be no machine named 'bootcd*' anywhere :-(
>>
>> What should I be using?
>
> bootcdx86 was superceeded by the -live images. I'd suggest using the
> qemux86 or atom-pc machines and building a -live image, dd that to a usb
> stick and boot that on the laptop. An iso format image is also generated
> that can be placed onto a CD.

It will have to be atom-pc as qemu doesn't provide live images (last I 
checked, a few weeks back).

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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel