[poky] No joy on "standard" PC

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:
> 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.

Interesting. I'll try the same thing here today.

Bruce

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