Re: Poky on "standard" PC

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

On 01/25/2011 05:30 PM, Darren Hart wrote:
> On 01/25/2011 02:52 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
>> On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 14:54 -0800, Darren Hart wrote:
>>> On 01/24/2011 04:39 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 05:05 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>>> I wanted to try Poky on a spare laptop, so I went looking
>>>>> for an appropriate configuration to build.
>>>>>
>>>>> From 'README.hardware' (last updated 2010-12-16), I read:
>>>>> Poky Boot CD (bootcdx86)
>>>>> ========================
>>>>>
>>>>> The Poky boot CD iso images are designed as a demonstration of the Poky
>>>>> environment and to show the versatile image formats Poky can generate. It will
>>>>> run on Pentium2 or greater PC style computers. The iso image can be
>>>>> burnt to CD and then booted from.
>>>>>
>>>>> When I tried it (it's also listed in the default local.conf),
>>>>> I got this error:
>>>>> Please set TARGET_ARCH directly, or choose a MACHINE or DISTRO that does so.
>>>>> Please set a valid MACHINE in your local.conf
>>>>>
>>>>> There seems to be no machine named 'bootcd*' anywhere :-(
>>>>>
>>>>> What should I be using?
>>>>
>>>> bootcdx86 was superceeded by the -live images. I'd suggest using the
>>>> qemux86 or atom-pc machines and building a -live image, dd that to a usb
>>>> stick and boot that on the laptop. An iso format image is also generated
>>>> that can be placed onto a CD.
>>>
>>> It will have to be atom-pc as qemu doesn't provide live images (last I
>>> checked, a few weeks back).
>>
>> I don't see why the qemu machine wouldn't work for the live image
>> variants, even if we don't build them by default on the autobuilder?
>
> When I run:
>
> $ MACHINE="qemux86" bitbake poky-image-minimal-live
>
> it results it:
>
> ERROR: '/home/dvhart/data/poky.git/meta/recipes-core/images/poky-image-minimal-live.bb' failed
> ERROR: Function 'build_boot_bin' failed (see /vol/1/dvhart/poky.git/build/tmp/work/i586-poky-linux/poky-image-minimal-live-1.0-r0/temp/log.do_bootimg.18423 for further information)
> ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in: /vol/1/dvhart/poky.git/build/tmp/work/i586-poky-linux/poky-image-minimal-live-1.0-r0/temp/log.do_bootimg.18423
> Log data follows:
> | install: cannot stat `/vol/1/dvhart/poky.git/build/tmp/sysroots/qemux86-poky-linux/kernel/bzImage': No such file or directory
> | Function 'build_boot_bin' failed (see /vol/1/dvhart/poky.git/build/tmp/work/i586-poky-linux/poky-image-minimal-live-1.0-r0/temp/log.do_bootimg.18423 for further information)
> | ERROR: Function 'build_boot_bin' failed (see /vol/1/dvhart/poky.git/build/tmp/work/i586-poky-linux/poky-image-minimal-live-1.0-r0/temp/log.do_bootimg.18423 for further information)
> NOTE: package poky-image-minimal-live-1.0-r0: task build_boot_bin: Failed
> ERROR: Task 9 (/home/dvhart/data/poky.git/meta/recipes-core/images/poky-image-minimal-live.bb, do_bootimg) failed with exit code '1'

This worked for me.  Are you sure your repo is up to date?
I think the fix was in
   commit bc9d2fbfd4eaad0df5647dd5d07dfb9fcff80ff3
   Author: Dongxiao Xu <dongxiao.xu@intel.com>
   Date:   Tue Jan 18 16:17:58 2011 +0800

     staging: Use relative path in sysroot-destdir for target recipes


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