[poky] No joy on "standard" PC

[Darren Hart]

On 01/26/2011 04:13 PM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> 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.

Check the .config in the linux-yocto build directory, does it have
CONFIG_ISO9660_FS set?

I'll have a look in the morning as well.

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