[linux-yocto] RT Kernel for 3.4 does not boot

[Bodke, Kishore K]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bruce Ashfield [mailto:bruce.ashfield at windriver.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 7:54 AM
>To: Development list for the linux-yocto*.git Linux kernel repositories
>Cc: Bodke, Kishore K
>Subject: Re: [linux-yocto] RT Kernel for 3.4 does not boot
>
>On 12-09-04 10:24 AM, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>> On 12-08-30 07:01 PM, Bodke, Kishore K wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Has anyone tried booting the RT Kernel for 3.4 for any BSP?
>>>
>>> For Romley it does not boot.
>>>
>>> I am using
>>>
>>> KBRANCH_romley = "standard/preempt-rt/base"
>>>
>>> SRCREV_machine_pn-linux-yocto-rt_romley ?=
>>> "eb9c0669c66041eeae72b853011ec31ad81cc35d"
>>>
>>> SRCREV_meta_pn-linux-yocto-rt_romley ?=
>>> "463299bc2e533e1bd38b0053ae7b210980f269c3"
>>>
>>> I see the latest RT kernel it is pulling is 3.4.9-rt14-yocto-preempt-rt ?
>>
>>
>> FYI: I re-merged -rt this morning, and will have some boot results
>> later today. If it works, the fixed support will be pushed out by EOD.
>
>Confirmed to work here:
>
> > uname -a
>Linux qemux86 3.4.9-rt17-yocto-preempt-rt #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Sep 4
>10:35:17 EDT 2012 i686 GNU/Linux
>
>The fixes have been pushed out to the kernel tree, if you use AUTOREV,
>you'll pick them up in your next build. I'll send SRCREV updates shortly
>as well.

Booted for me as well.
I built core-image-sato.  But I only see the command prompt but not the regular sato desktop with all the desktop icons.
root at crystalforest-stargo:~# uname -a
Linux crystalforest-stargo 3.4.9-rt17-yocto-preempt-rt #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Sep 4 11:18:25 PDT 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Is this expected?

Thanks
Kishore.