Bug 6826

Summary:	wic: invoke 'wic create directdisk -e core-image-minimal' failed
Product:	[Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core	Reporter:	Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia>
Component:	deployment	Assignee:	Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Medium	CC:	liezhi.yang, mark.hatle, sgw
Version:	1.8
Target Milestone:	1.8 M1
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	Don't know

Description Hongxu Jia 2014-10-13 10:31:26 UTC

1. build core-image-minimal
$ bitbake core-image-minimal

2. run wic failed
$ wic create directdisk -e core-image-minimal
...
|Creating image(s)...
|Error: exec_cmd: install -m 444 /home/jiahongxu/yocto/
build-20141010-yocto/tmp/deploy/images/qemux86-64/syslinux/
ldlinux.sys /var/tmp/wic/build/hdd/boot/ldlinux.sys
returned '1' instead of 0
...

Comment 1 Hongxu Jia 2014-10-13 10:43:12 UTC

Add checking for the existance of syslinux to fix this issue.
If syslinux didn't exist in anywhere, prompt user to build it.

$ wic create directdisk -e core-image-minimal
...
Creating image(s)...

Error: Please build syslinux first
...

Comment 2 Hongxu Jia 2014-10-20 02:40:53 UTC

Merged into master:

commit 9c218a319e006b8edf2f1ef9eada9b5611b85e12
Author: Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia@windriver.com>
Date:   Mon Oct 13 18:46:34 2014 +0800

    wic/bootimg-pcbios.py: checking the existance of syslinux
    
    While syslinux not existed in $bootimg_dir, there was a error:
    
    $ wic create directdisk -e core-image-minimal
    ...
    |Creating image(s)...
    |Error: exec_cmd: install -m 444 /home/jiahongxu/yocto/
    build-20141010-yocto/tmp/deploy/images/qemux86-64/syslinux/
    ldlinux.sys /var/tmp/wic/build/hdd/boot/ldlinux.sys
    returned '1' instead of 0
    ...
    
    Add checking for the existance of syslinux to fix this issue.
    If syslinux didn't exist in anywhere, prompt user to build it.
    
    [YOCTO #6826]
    
    (From OE-Core rev: c2d4364d9fbbda64598f0a3eb0b0890932bb7742)