[poky] No joy on "standard" PC

[Gary Thomas]

On 01/27/2011 05:47 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 01/26/2011 08:30 PM, Darren Hart wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Nope :-(
> $ grep ISO9660
> tmp/work/atom-pc-poky-linux/linux-yocto-stable-2.6.34+git0+e1f85a470934a0cf6abde5d95533e74501822c6b_0+72ca49ab08b8eb475cec82a10049503602325791-r1/linux-atom-pc-standard-build/.config
> # CONFIG_ISO9660_FS is not set
>
> I'll try forcing this and rebuild to test.

I've tried this, but I didn't see any change.  Perhaps I didn't
do it correctly.   Since all I wanted was to update the kernel
with a different configuration, here are the steps I executed:
   ... adjust config using makeconfig
   % rm -f sstate-cache/sstate-linux-yocto-stable-atom-pc*
   % bitbake virtual/kernel -f -c compile
   % bitbake poky-image-minimal-live

Any other ideas?

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

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