Bug 3683 - qemu: booting a ramfs based image may enter an endless loop if root.img is not found
Summary: qemu: booting a ramfs based image may enter an endless loop if root.img is no...
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: ADT
Classification: Yocto Project Subprojects
Component: adt (show other bugs)
Version: 1.4
Hardware: x86 Multiple
: Medium normal
Target Milestone: 1.4
Assignee: Chen Qi
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Reported: 2013-01-08 06:34 UTC by Chen Qi
Modified: 2013-01-31 07:18 UTC (History)
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Description Chen Qi 2013-01-08 06:34:45 UTC 
It's inappropriate to enter an endless loop without any useful information ouput to screen.
As 'debugshell' feature has been implemented in init-live.sh.
I think we should add it as a default kernel option for ramfs booting.
Comment 1 Chen Qi 2013-01-10 02:38:22 UTC 
merged into poky/master: 6f5d6e2e0fa7a2a0e52a22bb6fc407ca37c329d1

http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=ChenQi/runqemu-ramfs
Comment 2 Yi Zhao 2013-01-31 07:18:28 UTC 
Verified with master branch: 27c8af1e3a9092caa19bd813c4dd0747de766dc5

Steps:
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1. Add line IMAGE_FSTYPES = "live" to conf/local.conf
2. Build the qemux86 minimal image
3. Run command: runqemu qemux86 ramfs. Since the rootfs.img cannot be found under /media,the system would drop to a shell after 30 seconds.a default timeout (30 seconds).
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