What's causing my VM's OS to hang on "Switched to clocksource refined-jiffies"?

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I have generated an OS using the Yocto Project, with Linux kernel version 3.14. I have tried several methods to boot this OS from VMware Fusion, all with seemingly-identical results, where the process hangs after Switched to clocksource refined-jiffies. I have removed the VM's USB controller. Here's the relevant part of the message log that I see:

Waiting for root device /dev/hda2...
Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = 863336102 ns)
Switched to clocksource refined-jiffies

How can it be fixed?

karobar

Posted 2015-11-30T18:54:34.303

Reputation: 175

Have you tried disabling time syncing between Host and Guest? See: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1189

– FiZi – 2015-12-01T17:51:43.173

just tried your suggestion with no apparent changes – karobar – 2015-12-01T20:22:30.977

Answers

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As it turns out, I was so focused on the two lines about clocksources that I missed the crucial line: Waiting for root device /dev/hda2...; my hard drive was not being recognized because my OS image was configured to use IDE. Within VMware Fusion I had missed that my HD bus type was configured to SCSI. I was able to fix this by navigating to VM settings->Startup Disk->Advanced options->Bus type, and set to IDE.

karobar

Posted 2015-11-30T18:54:34.303

Reputation: 175

Asked: 2015-11-30T18:54:34.303

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