[poky] No joy on "standard" PC

[Gary Thomas]

On 01/26/2011 02:26 PM, Darren Hart wrote:
> 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?

Hard to do - I took pictures of the screen with my camera, the results
may help, but won't win me a Pulitzer :-)

On the AMD/2800+
   http://www.mlbassoc.com/poky/BootFailures/P1000630.JPG
On the old Pentium-III laptop
   http://www.mlbassoc.com/poky/BootFailures/P1000631.JPG
   http://www.mlbassoc.com/poky/BootFailures/P1000632.JPG
>
>>
>> * 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).

My boot medium is a CD-RW with the ISO image.
Not sure why it didn't want to boot before, but when I just retried
it, it hung in yet a different way.
   http://www.mlbassoc.com/poky/BootFailures/P1000629.JPG

>
>>
>> * 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?
>
   http://www.mlbassoc.com/poky/BootFailures/poky-hangs.png

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