[poky] Poky on "standard" PC

[Darren Hart]

On 01/25/2011 05:37 PM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 01/25/2011 05:30 PM, Darren Hart wrote:
>> On 01/25/2011 02:52 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>> When I run:
>>
>> $ MACHINE="qemux86" bitbake poky-image-minimal-live
>>
>> it results it:
>>
>> ERROR:
>> '/home/dvhart/data/poky.git/meta/recipes-core/images/poky-image-minimal-live.bb'
>> failed
>> ERROR: Function 'build_boot_bin' failed (see
>> /vol/1/dvhart/poky.git/build/tmp/work/i586-poky-linux/poky-image-minimal-live-1.0-r0/temp/log.do_bootimg.18423
>> for further information)
>> ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in:
>> /vol/1/dvhart/poky.git/build/tmp/work/i586-poky-linux/poky-image-minimal-live-1.0-r0/temp/log.do_bootimg.18423
>>
>> Log data follows:
>> | install: cannot stat
>> `/vol/1/dvhart/poky.git/build/tmp/sysroots/qemux86-poky-linux/kernel/bzImage':
>> No such file or directory
>> | Function 'build_boot_bin' failed (see
>> /vol/1/dvhart/poky.git/build/tmp/work/i586-poky-linux/poky-image-minimal-live-1.0-r0/temp/log.do_bootimg.18423
>> for further information)
>> | ERROR: Function 'build_boot_bin' failed (see
>> /vol/1/dvhart/poky.git/build/tmp/work/i586-poky-linux/poky-image-minimal-live-1.0-r0/temp/log.do_bootimg.18423
>> for further information)
>> NOTE: package poky-image-minimal-live-1.0-r0: task build_boot_bin: Failed
>> ERROR: Task 9
>> (/home/dvhart/data/poky.git/meta/recipes-core/images/poky-image-minimal-live.bb,
>> do_bootimg) failed with exit code '1'
>
> This worked for me. Are you sure your repo is up to date?
> I think the fix was in
> commit bc9d2fbfd4eaad0df5647dd5d07dfb9fcff80ff3
> Author: Dongxiao Xu <dongxiao.xu at intel.com>
> Date: Tue Jan 18 16:17:58 2011 +0800

I did have the above patch, but refreshing again to master's HEAD and 
rebuilding seems to have worked. I also purged tmp and sstate, perhaps I 
had something stuck in there.


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