Hi Genodians,
Last week I've played with the Sculpt EA system. It looks great. And with the new booting code, it runs on my hardware.
It boots on my old Gigabyte H67MA-USB3-B3 mobo with a Pentium G620 processor and 16 GB RAM. I didn't connect any Sata disks yet. Built-in Intel video to VGA and DVI-D display. No RS232 output, regrettably. (Another box, a DELL optiplex 360 PC, does do RS232 after grub but lacks recognised display adapter and reboots).
My experiences:
Things that work: - booting, OK; - Leitzentrale OK; - Disk, network and debug log OK; - live reconfiguration of display from VGA to DVI OK; - wired network config OK; however the system does not respond to ping; - Deploy backdrop OK, 2048 game OK, noux OK.
After that I had some less luck.
- Some downloads seem to hang. It could either be out of RAM (config), or a lost packet that is not detected. I'm using the RAM-disk that gets to 64MB in size. (I remember, but could not reproduce) it going to 128MB
- Expanding the GENODE-partition on the USB-stick makes it unbootable. The system can't find and start Grub anymore. This happened repeatable both with a Kingston 8GB USB2 stick as well as with a Sandisk 32GB USB3 stick.
I haven't been able to test the virtual machine with debian payload due to the download errors.
Questions: - is there a way to send the debug log via ethernet? - did I miss some configuration settings that made the downloads get stuck?
Cheers, Guido.