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 19CC84C81146 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:13:23 -0600 (CST) Received: by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 999) id A4C55166032F; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:13:23 -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 CD1421660311; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:13:21 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <4D40B8A1.2000406@mlbassoc.com> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:13:21 -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> <4D409B30.9070000@mlbassoc.com> <4D40B5FA.5000005@linux.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <4D40B5FA.5000005@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: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:13:24 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. > >> >>> >>>> >>>> * 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... > ... all I want is to run Poky on my laptop :-) -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------