[poky] No joy on "standard" PC

[Gary Thomas]

On 01/26/2011 05:02 PM, Darren Hart wrote:
> 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?

Correct.

>
>> 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.

Same boot CD as above - I'm not sure what it's up to at this point.

>
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> * 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...
>

... all I want is to run Poky on my laptop :-)

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