Actually, while the problems at SourceForge were delaying the mailing list, I solved part of my problem. Details below...
On 03/01/2018 11:14 PM, John J. Karcher wrote:
Hello,
I have downloaded, built, and begun testing Sculpt EA, following the instructions linked to in the 18.02 release notes. Everything went well during the build process.
Since I primarily run everything I do in VirtualBox (and don't have the recommended hardware anyway), I created a VM as close to the recommendations as possible. It booted fine from a virtual CD, the system came up using the VESA framebuffer driver, the mouse worked, and I was able to follow the instructions until I got to the part about storage. Unfortunately, there are no "<device>" nodes under "<block_devices>" in "/report/drivers/block_devices".
I have the VM set up with a "SATA" controller and a single virtual drive. Has anyone tried this? Do you have any hints on how to diagnose what is going wrong?
Once I switched the "Chipset" setting to "ICH9", it found the drive, and I was able to continue.
Also, I modified the config to use wired networking (using a virtual Intel-based NIC), but I couldn't think of a way to easily test whether it is working or not. (I'm sure I'm missing something obvious here, but I appreciate any hints.)
Unfortunately, I am not having luck with the network card. I have tried all of the available Adapter Types, but none of them work. I get messages in "/report/log" like these:
For Intel 82540EM:
[runtimne -> nic -> nic] Found 00:3.0 8086:100e (rev 02) IRQ 09 [runtimne -> nic -> nic] using driver 82540em [runtimne -> nic -> nic] PCI BIOS has not enabled device 00:3.0! Updating PCI command 0003->0007 [drivers -> platform_drv] Error: runtimne -> nic -> nic: assignment of PCI device 0:3.0 failed phys=0xdc018000 virt=0x1000 [runtimne -> nic -> nic] PCI device 00:3.0 latency timer is unreasonably low at 0. Setting to 32. [runtimne -> nic -> nic] bus_addr = e2000000 len = 20000 ... [runtimne -> nic -> nic] snprintf not implemented [drivers -> platform_drv] IRQ override 9->9 trigger mode: LEVEL, polarity: LOW [drivers -> platform_drv] 0:3.0 uses IRQ, vector 0x9, non-maskable
For Intel 82543GC (all the same, except):
[runtimne -> nic -> nic] Found 00:3.0 8086:100e (rev 02) IRQ 09 [runtimne -> nic -> nic] using driver 82543gc
For Intel 82545EM (all the same, except):
[runtimne -> nic -> nic] Found 00:11.0 8086:100f (rev 02) IRQ 0b [runtimne -> nic -> nic] using driver 82545em [runtimne -> nic -> nic] PCI BIOS has not enabled device 00:11.0! Updating PCI command 0003->0007 [drivers -> platform_drv] Error: runtimne -> nic -> nic: assignment of PCI device 0:11.0 failed phys=0xdc088000 virt=0x1000 ... [runtimne -> nic -> nic] bus_addr = e2420000 len = 20000 ... [drivers -> platform_drv] 0:11.0 uses IRQ, vector 0xb, non-maskable
FWIW, VirtualBox doesn't seem to give any way of tweaking things at the IRQ level.
This is closer to the hardware than I usually get these days. Is there anything I can try?
Thanks!