[poky] Poky on "standard" PC

[Richard Purdie]

On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 14:54 -0800, Darren Hart wrote:
> 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).

I don't see why the qemu machine wouldn't work for the live image
variants, even if we don't build them by default on the autobuilder?

atom-pc is fine though...

Cheers,

Richard