On Tue, 2017-11-21 at 13:47 -0800, California Sullivan wrote: > I wasn't able to install to my Optane SSD due to the following error: > > Formatting /dev/nvme0n1p1 to vfat... > mkfs.fat 4.1 (2017-01-24) > mkfs.vfat: unable to open /dev/nvme0n1p1: No such file or directory > Target install-efi failed > > A couple lines later I see: > > [ 10.265401] nvme0n1: p1 p2 p3 > > Then looking at the device itself after booting from a USB stick: > > root@intel-corei7-64: ~# ls /dev/nvme0n1* > /dev/nvme0n1 /dev/nvme0n1p1 /dev/nvme0n1p2 /dev/nvme0n1p3 > > So it looks like the parted commands return before the device node is > actually created. > > Work around this issue by adding a short sleep before doing the mkfs > commands. > Not advisable to just add the sleep, maybe a check before to see if the device exists and then sleep (or usleep, if we have it) and do this in a while loop with a counter to actually timeout after some number of sleeps.
Yes more work, but more appropriate if the settle time is not actually needed or a longer settle time is required. Thanks Sau! > Signed-off-by: California Sullivan <california.l.sulli...@intel.com> > --- > meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/files/init-install-efi.sh | 2 ++ > meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/files/init-install.sh | 2 ++ > 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/files/init-install- > efi.sh b/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/files/init-install-efi.sh > index 5ad3a60..118bf08 100644 > --- a/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/files/init-install-efi.sh > +++ b/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/files/init-install-efi.sh > @@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ parted ${device} mkpart swap linux-swap > $swap_start 100% > > parted ${device} print > > +sleep 1 > + > echo "Formatting $bootfs to vfat..." > mkfs.vfat $bootfs > > diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/files/init-install.sh > b/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/files/init-install.sh > index 1cac806..606317d 100644 > --- a/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/files/init-install.sh > +++ b/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/files/init-install.sh > @@ -211,6 +211,8 @@ parted ${device} mkpart $pname linux-swap > $swap_start 100% > > parted ${device} print > > +sleep 1 > + > echo "Formatting $bootfs to ext3..." > mkfs.ext3 $bootfs > > -- > 2.9.5 > -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core