[poky] No joy on "standard" PC

[Darren Hart]

On 01/26/2011 05:43 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.

Can you capture the output and provide some details on the hardware?

>
> * On my brand new laptop (Core-i3), I couldn't get it to even
> try...

What happened? Some bios are very particular about usb layout, see
README.hardware under atom-pc. Some (including my netbook) require
that it be in USB-ZIP format, so you can't just dd the image to
the stick in some cases (unfortunately).

>
> * On a VirtualBox machine, it boots but then sits forever
> "waiting for removable media"...

Can you share the messages leading up to this? Is it trying to mount ram0?

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