[OE-core] [PATCH 2/2] install*.sh: add short sleep after parted commands

California Sullivan california.l.sullivan at intel.com
Tue Nov 21 21:47:03 UTC 2017


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 at 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.

Signed-off-by: California Sullivan <california.l.sullivan at 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




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