I have experienced this issue before, and it is related to how the image
is copied to the usb drive. Try manually copying the image with "dd
bs=1024 if=<image.img> of=/dev/sda" (where <image.img> is the image file
under your project/targets/<target name>/images/ directory - this also
assumes that your usb drive is /dev/sda, change accordingly).
The reason for this as best as I can figure out is that the image
filesystem is created with a default block size of 1024, but when using
dd to write to a usb drive, it defaults to a different block size, and
file locations get out of alignment. What ever the reason, using
"bs=1024" has worked for me 99% of the time, whereas without I only get
~30% success.
Tobin
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 15:10 -0700, Lopatin, Alexander L wrote:
> It looks like the installation script (install.sh on install USB) failed to
> partition your hard drive /dev/hda1:
>
> 1. You can try to boot with LiveRW image and see if /dev/hda1 was partitioned
> 2. Add '/bin/sleep 5' before second 'sync' in the install.sh script (after
> fdisk /dev/${device} sequence). It once helped me by some reason.
>
> Alex
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mahalingam,
> Nithish
> Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 21:54
> To: Lynch, Rusty
> Cc: dev@moblin.org
> Subject: RE: [Moblin Dev] Issue with 'Install USB'?
>
> Any idea on this guys?
>
> Regards,
> Nithish Mahalingam
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
> Of Mahalingam, Nithish
> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 10:11 AM
> To: Lynch, Rusty
> Cc: dev@moblin.org
> Subject: RE: [Moblin Dev] Issue with 'Install USB'?
>
> Hi Rusty,
>
> At boot time I am seeing -
>
>
> Begin: Waiting for root file system
> Check root=bootarg cat /proc/cmdline
> or missing modules, device: cat /proc/modules ls /dev
> ALERT! /dev/hda1 does not exist. Dropping to shell!
>
> (initramfs) .....
> .......
>
>
> /dev/hda1 does not exist??? Is that the problem?
>
>
> Regards,
> Nithish Mahalingam
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lynch, Rusty
> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 12:28 AM
> To: Mahalingam, Nithish
> Cc: Lopatin, Alexander L; dev@moblin.org
> Subject: RE: [Moblin Dev] Issue with 'Install USB'?
>
> Do you have any clue in the console? Any error messages?
>
> On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 00:23 +0530, Mahalingam, Nithish wrote:
> > Hi Alex,
> >
> > I guess the problem I am facing now to different to -
> >
> > I am able to create a Install USB image successfully and also am able
> to
> > install it on an HDD (I have a 20GB HDD). After installation when I
> > remove the USB drive and try to boot the newly installed OS from the
> HDD
> > the system hangs at boot time. By the way I can see the grub updated
> for
> > the newly installed OS on the HDD.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Nithish Mahalingam
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lopatin, Alexander L
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 12:18 AM
> > To: Mahalingam, Nithish; dev@moblin.org
> > Subject: RE: [Moblin Dev] Issue with 'Install USB'?
> >
> > Here is a week old posting: [Moblin Dev] Issue creating Install USB
> > image with the latest MIC?
> >
> > I also ran yesterday into the same problem while creating an Install
> USB
> > image for device with 2GB drive.
> >
> > One place to fix this is defaults.cfg file as Praj wrote, but also the
> > MIC script platforms/common-apt/install.sh could be fixed the way it
> > will stop and give the error message "Disk is too small to create
> boot,
> > main/data, swap and fat32 partitions" in case when sum of
> > boot_partition_size, swap__partition_size, and fat32_partition_size
> > greater then the disk size.
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Alex
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
> > Of Prajwal Mohan
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 02:00
> > To: Mahalingam, Nithish
> > Cc: dev@moblin.org
> > Subject: Re: [Moblin Dev] Issue creating Install USB image with the
> > latest MIC?
> >
> > You can customize the boot partition and other partition size. To do
> > this create a file ~/.image-creator/image-creator.cfg and use
> > /usr/share/pdk/default_config/defaults.cfg as a template.
> > Thanks,
> > Praj
> >
> >
> > Mahalingam, Nithish wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Today I noticed that with the latest MIC I am not able to create
> > working
> > > "Install USB" image that would install successfully on the Menlow
> > > platform. Here is what I tried -
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > 1. I created a Menlow-lpia project and created a new target.
> > >
> > > 2. I included the Crownbeach-mobile-complete-stack FSET and
> > inside
> > > the terminal window I built a new 2.6.22 kernel for some experiment
> of
> > > mine.
> > >
> > > 3. Created a "Install USB" image and burned it onto the USB
> > >
> > > 4. When I try to install this image on Menlow I am seeing an
> > error
> > > while the installer tries to copy the squashfs file system saying
> the
> > cp
> > > failed for root.img as there was no disk space.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > The HDD I am using a Seagate 80GB and I have installed Menlow
> > > successfully with the previous version of MIC. By the way Live RW
> > image
> > > works fine without any issue.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Now what I doubt is - I see that the installer tries to partition
> the
> > > hard disk and then tries to copy the files to the appropriate
> > partition;
> > > now is the root.img file size exceeding the partition size?
> > >
> > > I must admit that with two kernels being built in my image and with
> > the
> > > kernel source for one of the Install USB kernels image size is
> ~1.1GB.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Can someone help here?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Nithish Mahalingam
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
> > Of Mahalingam, Nithish
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 11:43
> > To: dev@moblin.org
> > Subject: [Moblin Dev] Issue with 'Install USB'?
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> >
> > I have been trying to create an 'Install USB' image for menlow-lpia
> > platform with moblin-crownbeach-full-mobile-stack FSET added and I am
> > seeing an hang during OS boot after the OS installation completed on
> the
> > HDD from the Install USB image. There is no issue when I boot the OS
> > with an Live RW. Is there any issue with the Install USB image
> off-late?
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Nithish Mahalingam
> >
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