From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RO5L8-0004mL-9w for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:25:06 +0100 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RO5F7-0005s9-3v for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:18:53 +0100 Received: from ip545070eb.adsl-surfen.hetnet.nl ([84.80.112.235]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:18:53 +0100 Received: from koen by ip545070eb.adsl-surfen.hetnet.nl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:18:53 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org From: Koen Kooi Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:18:37 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip545070eb.adsl-surfen.hetnet.nl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.2 Subject: Re: Anstrom boot hang with MACHINE=i686-generic and DISTRO=anstrom-2010.x X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:25:06 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Op 09-11-11 00:19, Greg Kogut schreef: > Greg Kogut yahoo.com> writes: > >> >> I've tried both console-image and x11-image. > > > Edit: > > I was able to to boot fully after appending "-o rw" to the "root" kernel > parameter. > > I suspect the issue was that the read-only mount was not allowing udev to > correctly populate /dev with the tty devices passed to getty, and getty > was flummoxed. > > So I'm amending my question: Help a n00b -what's the standard practice > with respect to maintaining an embedded-safe read-only rootfs while > allowing udev to do its thang? Separate partition for /dev? You're still following the deprecated OE-classic workflow. If you follow the instructions at http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/building-angstrom you will get the updated angstrom configs that work with RO / regards, Koen -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iD8DBQFOulN9MkyGM64RGpERAgkLAJsHQ6t7GR+JUBu5BeaTVz/YYK/KpQCguTWU XMTgjD846DcyqCIr9B7JUhc= =3H0D -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----