Bug 1475

Summary:	runqemu with nographic option doesn't display early boot messages
Product:	[Build System, Metadata & Runtime] Meta-yocto	Reporter:	Mark Hatle <mark.hatle>
Component:	meta-yocto	Assignee:	Scott Garman <scott.a.garman>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Medium	CC:	dvhart, poky.bs.watcher, poky.watcher, sgw
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	1.2 M4
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:	(P3) 2012-03-29: Merged to master
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	---

Description Mark Hatle 2011-09-13 14:18:50 UTC

The runqemu script, when run with the nographic option (qemux86) does not display the kernel boot messages.

By adding:

 bootparams="earlyprintk=ttyS0 console=ttyS0"

I was able to restore access to those early boot messages.


Reproducer:

../scripts/runqemu qemux86 core-image-minimal nographic

vs

../scripts/runqemu qemux86 core-image-minimal nographic bootparams="earlyprintk=ttyS0 console=ttyS0"

Comment 1 Darren Hart 2011-09-13 14:28:28 UTC

earlyprintk probably shouldn't be on by default, but "--append='console=ttyS0'" probably makes sense to add when running without graphics. If we want to wrap qemu entirely, then some kind of a -text option to the top level script might be ideal.

Comment 2 Scott Garman 2012-03-29 21:58:23 UTC

Fix included in oe-core and poky master as of:

http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=3af7e95d69d29f1a5f79e60adfd4db7bd3c4570d