[poky] No joy on "standard" PC

[Gary Thomas]

On 01/27/2011 03:23 PM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> 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?

Still no joy booting from CD.  I did boot the HDD image on
multiple systems and it runs just fine.  The exact same ISO
on those hardware still fails.

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