From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga01.intel.com (mga01.intel.com [192.55.52.88]) by mx1.pokylinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38B2E4C81146 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:02:16 -0600 (CST) Received: from fmsmga002.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.26]) by fmsmga101.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 26 Jan 2011 16:02:15 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.60,382,1291622400"; d="scan'208";a="651543167" Received: from unknown (HELO [10.255.14.182]) ([10.255.14.182]) by fmsmga002.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 26 Jan 2011 16:02:15 -0800 Message-ID: <4D40B5FA.5000005@linux.intel.com> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:02:02 -0800 From: Darren Hart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101208 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Thomas References: <4D40251F.5070906@mlbassoc.com> <4D40919E.6010802@linux.intel.com> <4D409B30.9070000@mlbassoc.com> In-Reply-To: <4D409B30.9070000@mlbassoc.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: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:02:16 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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? > 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. > >> >>> >>> * 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 > This I haven't tried... hrm... -- Darren Hart Intel Open Source Technology Center Yocto Project - Linux Kernel