Bug 2754

Summary: Cannot boot crownbay image from usb using the hddimg image
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] BSPs Reporter: Alexandru Georgescu <alexandru.c.georgescu>
Component: bsps-meta-intelAssignee: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi>
Status: VERIFIED INVALID QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Medium CC: dvhart, tom.zanussi, yilongx.y.sun
Version: 1.3   
Target Milestone: 1.3   
Hardware: Other   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: ---

Description Alexandru Georgescu 2012-07-12 14:40:02 UTC 
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:

Canont boot Crownbay from USB using this image: http://autobuilder03.jf.intel.com/pub/nightly-meta-intel/20120712-1/machines/crownbay/core-image-sato-sdk-crownbay-20120712020904.hddimg

GRUB could not find the kernel file.



OTHER COMMENTS:
Using a live DVD (I burned it using this image: http://autobuilder03.jf.intel.com/pub/nightly-meta-intel/20120712-1/machines/crownbay/core-image-sato-sdk-crownbay-20120712020904.iso) could start boot, but it didn't finnish. The progressbar was over 90% but it stopped there. Instead, I could install it on the HDD without problems.
Comment 1 Tom Zanussi 2012-07-12 15:59:35 UTC 
For the first item, it's likely the problem is the sdk image is too large for the BIOS.  Please look at this section in README.hardware and see if that works for you:
 
 If the device fails to boot with "Boot error" displayed, or apparently
  stops just after the SYSLINUX version banner, it is likely the BIOS cannot
  understand the physical layout of the disk (or rather it expects a
  particular layout and cannot handle anything else). There are two possible
  solutions to this problem:

For the second problem, likely because X needs writeable media, similar to
"qemu: when booting from live CD, X cannot be started needs unionfs"

https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1487
Comment 2 Darren Hart 2012-07-19 14:30:23 UTC 
Alex can you respond to Tom's comment?
Comment 3 Alexandru Georgescu 2012-07-20 13:58:13 UTC 
Hello,
Sorry for the late reply!
I have followed the README.hardware install process for the USB key as Tom suggested and it worked  fine. Thanks for the tip!

Alex.
Comment 4 Alexandru Georgescu 2013-03-11 16:13:27 UTC 
verified as per last comment