From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.chez-thomas.org (hermes.mlbassoc.com [64.234.241.98]) by mx1.pokylinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DA824C8085F for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:07:46 -0600 (CST) Received: by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 999) id F3E731660346; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:07:44 -0700 (MST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on hermes.chez-thomas.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=4.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.1 Received: from hermes.chez-thomas.org (hermes_local [192.168.1.101]) by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16113166033B; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:07:44 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <4D409B30.9070000@mlbassoc.com> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:07:44 -0700 From: Gary Thomas User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101209 Fedora/3.1.7-0.35.b3pre.fc13 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Darren Hart References: <4D40251F.5070906@mlbassoc.com> <4D40919E.6010802@linux.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <4D40919E.6010802@linux.intel.com> Cc: Poky Subject: Re: No joy on "standard" PC X-BeenThere: poky@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Poky build system developer discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:07:46 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 http://www.mlbassoc.com/poky/BootFailures/P1000632.JPG > >> >> * 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 > >> >> * On a VirtualBox machine, it boots but then sits forever >> "waiting for removable media"... > > Can you share the messages leading up to this? Is it trying to mount ram0? > http://www.mlbassoc.com/poky/BootFailures/poky-hangs.png -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------