I've successfully built core-image-base-cedartrail-nopvr, with NO modifications, no meta-oe layer to pull in Samba, no attempt to partition the flash drive, just the .hddimg file dd'ed to /dev/sdb, to see if I can get something, anything to boot out of the box.
I get a kernel panic when it tries to boot on my Intel DN2800MT mobo, with 1GB of RAM. The error messages, which appear on the attached VGA monitor, are: VFS: Cannot open root device "ram0" or unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) User configuration error - no valid root filesystem found Here is the syslinux.cfg file that is controlling the boot: # Automatically created by OE serial 0 115200 ALLOWOPTIONS 1 DEFAULT boot TIMEOUT 10 PROMPT 1 LABEL boot KERNEL /vmlinuz APPEND initrd=/initrd LABEL=boot root=/dev/ram0 console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty0 video=vesafb vga=0x318 LABEL install KERNEL /vmlinuz APPEND initrd=/initrd LABEL=install root=/dev/ram0 console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty0 video=vesafb vga=0x318 This is a live-image boot, and the flash drive contains the usual five files. As far as I can tell, a live-image boot is a two-stage boot beginning with a really stripped down vmlinuz and a small RAM-disk read from initrd, which then reads the big rootfs.img into another RAM-disk and tries to boot the real kernel from that. I don't know which kernel is panicking, because it all flies by so fast. Any ideas, or am I cursed? -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paul mailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto