From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from tinyArch.localdomain (unknown [78.110.170.148]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE724E01363 for ; Thu, 24 May 2012 07:25:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.18] (unknown [195.171.99.130]) by tinyArch.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E09A140620 for ; Thu, 24 May 2012 15:04:54 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <4FBE44EE.2070909@communistcode.co.uk> Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 15:25:50 +0100 From: Jack Mitchell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: meta-ti@yoctoproject.org References: <4FBBB531.8020401@communistcode.co.uk> <4FBBB786.8030501@mlbassoc.com> <4FBBB8E9.1040700@communistcode.co.uk> <20120522163158.GB15020@denix.org> <4FBCA367.701@communistcode.co.uk> <4FBCC147.90606@mlbassoc.com> <4FBCE8E4.6010208@communistcode.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4FBCE8E4.6010208@communistcode.co.uk> Subject: Re: Beaglebone + Poky X-BeenThere: meta-ti@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Mailing list for the meta-ti layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 14:25:10 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 23/05/12 14:40, Jack Mitchell wrote: > On 23/05/12 11:51, Gary Thomas wrote: >> On 2012-05-23 02:44, Jack Mitchell wrote: >>> On 22/05/12 17:31, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote: >>>> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 05:03:53PM +0100, Jack Mitchell wrote: >>>>> On 22/05/12 16:57, Gary Thomas wrote: >>>>>> On 2012-05-22 09:48, Jack Mitchell wrote: >>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I am currently trying to boot my beagleboard with a mix of >>>>>>> Poky/Meta-ti/meta-oe, I can build the image without error >>>>>>> however when I start booting the board the kernel gets to >>>>>>> 'freeing init memory' and seems to hang, although the beaglebone >>>>>>> light is still flashing and it will still accept keystrokes. >>>>>>> Could anyone shed any light on the situation? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I am on the denzil branch for all three repositories. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I have tried with USB only and USB + AC Adapter. >>>>>> What image did you use? >>>>> core-image-minimal - it does have a few extra programs added via >>>>> IMAGE_INSTALL but they are userspace only so shouldn't be affecting >>>>> the boot. >>>> Couple suggestions: >>>> >>>> 1. What's your init system? Since you have meta-oe mixed with poky, >>>> check if >>>> there are any problems with sysvinit or systemd, in case there is >>>> some mix up >>>> or confusion between those two... >>>> >>>> 2. Check your /etc/inittab for the correct tty used for getty, but >>>> it doesn't >>>> look like it reaches the prompt yet... >>>> >>> >>> I am using Poky defaults so I assume it will be sysvinit... however >>> I did see systemd being built, what would be the outline procedure >>> to check that mixing of systems isn't >>> occurring? None of my reciepes have systemd support, but I assume >>> something being pulled in from meta-oe does... >>> >>> My getty is being pushed to ttyO0, is this correct for the beaglebone? >> >> Can you put your images somewhere where I can access them? I can give >> you an FTP push site if that helps? I'd like to run through your image >> here on my BeagleBone. >> >> BTW, the only way meta-oe could be causing problems would be if you are >> using some recipe from it. If you build exactly 'core-image-minimal' >> with >> no extra packages, does it work for you? >> > > Hi Gary, > > I just tried without my addional programs to build a > core-image-minimal and it still halts on the same kernel message. > Something that I forgot to mention the yesterday was that I have a > very high debugging level set, here is my local conf line: > > EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES = "debug-tweaks tools-debug tools-profile dbg-pkgs" > > Which could cause other programs to be brought in? > > Regards, > Jack. > Just a quick note that removing meta-oe and just porting over the specific recipes that I needed fixed my problems. I still don't know specifically what they were but I am inclined to say they were init system related as Denys pointed out. Regards, -- Jack Mitchell (jack@embed.me.uk) Embedded Systems Engineer http://www.embed.me.uk --