[poky] No joy on "standard" PC

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Bruce Ashfield
<bruce.ashfield at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

This probably won't be all that helpful .. but I built and booted the
atom-pc in both the minimal and sdk images via a usb stick by
following the instructions in README.hardware.

(this was the 2.6.34 kernel, the 2.6.37 kernel still needs some more options)

This was an old pentium (pentium 4) target I had here, so nothing
special.

What was your boot media ? hard disk ?

Bruce

>
> 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 :-(
>>
>> --
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> Gary Thomas                 |  Consulting for the
>> MLB Associates              |    Embedded world
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>
>
>
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> thee at its end"
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