Re: No joy on "standard" PC

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

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'll have a look in the morning as well.
>

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