[poky] No joy on "standard" PC

[Darren Hart]

On 01/26/2011 02:07 PM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> 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

Failing to mount the root partition either due to missing drivers for 
the block device or the filesystem. You said this was MACHINE=atom-pc 
and poky-image-sato-live? And you're booting using the .iso image burned 
to a CD?

> http://www.mlbassoc.com/poky/BootFailures/P1000632.JPG

Too late, missed the good bits. I suspect the two above are adequate.

>>
>>>
>>> * 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

If I'm reading this one correctly, it's failing to boot from the USB 
device and later detects another drive (My Passport) which has something 
other than a standard ext[23] filesystem on the first partition.

>
>>
>>>
>>> * 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
>

This I haven't tried... hrm...

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