[poky] No joy on "standard" PC

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:
> On 01/26/2011 06:58 AM, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Gary Thomas<gary at mlbassoc.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On 01/26/2011 06:43 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I finally got Poky to build for a standard PC (actually atom-pc
>>>> so I could build a live/bootable image). Sadly, that's all I
>>>> have is an image as I can't get it to run anywhere :-(
>>>>
>>>> * On my laptop (the point of this exercise) which is an older
>>>> Pentium-III machine, the kernel crashes almost immediately.
>>>
>>> Exact same failure on my [newer] AMD/2800 tower.
>>
>> I'll start some builds up here and see how things perform around
>> here.  I've largely been building and booting the emulator for
>> x86 and the non-x86 hardware targets. But this sounds like something
>> worth taking for a spin.
>
> Thanks.  FAOD, here's my build setup:
>  OE Build Configuration:
>  BB_VERSION        = "1.11.0"
>  METADATA_BRANCH   = "local_master"
>  METADATA_REVISION = "db9b8bc9a34f3f486d6ce948a073a1f042d9dbb7"
>  TARGET_ARCH       = "i586"
>  TARGET_OS         = "linux"
>  MACHINE           = "atom-pc"
>  DISTRO            = "poky"
>  DISTRO_VERSION    = "0.9+snapshot-20110126"
>  TARGET_FPU        = ""
>

perfect. This matches what I launched a few minutes ago.

Bruce

> Host CPU = Fedora-13/x86
> Building poky-image-sato-live.
>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> * On my brand new laptop (Core-i3), I couldn't get it to even
>>>> try...
>>>>
>>>> * On a VirtualBox machine, it boots but then sits forever
>>>> "waiting for removable media"...
>>>>
>>>> Oh well, back to my OMAP that at least boots :-(
>
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