Sorry for getting back late on this…
@Tobin – No luck… even doing it with bs=1024 did not work. @Alex – No luck with your solution either… I did put a sleep as you suggested in the install.sh script still I am not seeing /dev/hda1 getting created. I also tried pulling in the latest MIC just hoping if someone had fixed this, same issue surfaced even with the latest MIC code. Is someone looking into this issue? I feel this is something critical that has broken. I trying to dig into MIC to understand the code if someone can tell me where to look for I would really appreciate that. Regards, Nithish Mahalingam From: Tobin Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 10:07 AM To: Lopatin, Alexander L Cc: Mahalingam, Nithish; Lynch, Rusty; dev@moblin.org Subject: RE: [Moblin Dev] Issue with 'Install USB'? 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 > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > dev@moblin.org > https://www.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > dev@moblin.org > https://www.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@moblin.org https://www.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@moblin.org https://www.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@moblin.org https://www.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev -- Tobin Davis "Those who do not do politics will be done in by politics." -- French Proverb
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