Greetings Norman,

I am happy to report that I have been able to generate the "seoul-fancy.iso". It looks like the problem was within the "tool/create_iso" script. Well, not really a problem in the script, but more of a problem in that my Debian 7.2 did not have "mkisofs" as it had been depreciated for the newer "genisoimage" which is basically the same thing. I just created a symbolic link from the genisoimage to mkisofs and the iso was generated correctly.

Then, I wrote the ISO to a disk and booted my real system into NOVA w/GENODE.

I was able to see the Genode screen with the "init" link but I could not see any mouse or keyboard actions as it looked like things had frozen. I have a USZB mouse, but I think that it is something else as I had a similar problem when I originally booted the NOVA v0.3 CD (2011.2) Demo. 

It showed me 4 options in that demo I had to use the 3rd option when booting:

NOVA Userland Demo (VESA, Broken Keyboard) 

in order to get things to work on my physical machine as I think that it has something to do with my keyboard.  I, further, noticed that the "Genode Live CD 10.11" did not have any choice like the NOVA Demo CD and thus I could boot the CD as well and see the graphics screen, but the mouse and keyboard interface would not work. I suspect that this is the same problem here.

On this machine, I have "AMD Radeon 7660D Grsphics" integrated in the HP Pavilian (p7-1451 PC) Next Gen AMD Quad-Core A10-5700 Accelerated Processor.

Perhaps we could try to find out what the NOVA group did for their boot options and try to work that into Genode for the Seoul-Fancy builds.
 
I sincerely thank you for all of your help and assistance.

Kind Regards and have a great day,
Lonnie

On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Norman Feske <norman.feske@...1...> wrote:
Hello Lonnie,

> I have not gotten things to compile down to the final step but have an
> error in creating the ISO for some reason even though I have
> "genisoimage" installed.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
>     COMPILE  syscall.o
>     COMPILE  tss.o
>     COMPILE  utcb.o
>     COMPILE  vmx.o
>     COMPILE  vtlb.o
>     LINK     hypervisor
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/lonnie/genode/gnova64'
> genode build completed
> using NOVA kernel at /home/lonnie/genode/gnova64/kernel/hypervisor
> creating ISO image...
> Error: ISO image creation failed
> make: *** [run/seoul-fancy] Error 251
> lonnie@...223...:~/genode/gnova64$

I don't know the reason from the tip of my head. To investigate, we need
to take a closer look at the ISO-creation step. It is performed as part
of the 'build_boot_image' function of the run script (NOVA-specific
implementation at base-nova/run/env line 85), which calls the
platform-independent function 'create_iso_image_from_run_dir' (located
at tool/run line 419). The run tool, in turn, invokes the external
utility tool/create_iso with the following arguments:

  <genode-dir>/tool/create_iso iso ISO=<build-dir>/var/run/seoul-fancy

The create_iso utility is actually a Makefile that uses the mkisofs
command. Please take a look inside tool/create_iso to see the
command-line options or, even better, remove the '@' character from line
40 to make the command arguments visible when create_iso is invoked the
next time, and retry the create_iso step. For reference, when it works
as it should, the output looks as follows:

  mkisofs     -f -l -R -hide-rr-moved -jcharset utf-8 -no-emul-boot
-boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -b boot/isolinux/isolinux.bin -o
/open/build/genode/nova_x86_64/var/run/seoul-fancy.iso
/open/build/genode/nova_x86_64/var/run/seoul-fancy
  Warning: -follow-links does not always work correctly; be careful.
  Size of boot image is 4 sectors -> No emulation
   17.66% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 27 16:19:52 2013
   35.28% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 27 16:19:52 2013
   52.94% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 27 16:19:52 2013
   70.54% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 27 16:19:52 2013
   88.21% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 27 16:19:52 2013
  Total translation table size: 2048
  Total rockridge attributes bytes: 3617
  Total directory bytes: 11126
  Path table size(bytes): 64
  Max brk space used 19000
  28355 extents written (55 MB)

The reason for the failure might be even unrelated to mkisofs. For
example, the create_iso tool relies on binutils installed on your
machine as it invokes the strip command. Or maybe there is not just not
enough disk space left?

Best regards
Norman

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