Want to Boot l4linux.iso directly on hardware???????

[Norman Feske]

Hi Vishal,

just as a shot in the dark, the problem may be related to the NIC
driver. The l4linux.run scenario expects an e1000 ethernet card to be
present. Maybe your machine lacks such a device? For a quick test, I
just tried starting the l4linux.iso image on Qemu while omitting the
network-related arguments and observed the effect that you reported
(only a lonely penguin who looks desperately for a command-line prompt).

You could try to remove the NIC driver from your setup. Just comment-out
the following lines in 'ports-foc/run/l4linux.run'

 #append_if [have_spec x86] config {
 #	<start name="nic_drv">
 #		<resource name="RAM" quantum="2M"/>
 #		<provides><service name="Nic"/></provides>
 #	</start>}

Of course, this change will make the automated test ('make run/l4linux')
fail since no network will be available anymore. But you can give the
resulting ISO image ('var/run/l4linux.iso') a try on your PC hardware
and see if you get to see the prompt.

Still, I second Stefan's suggestion about making the output of the
serial console available.

Cheers
Norman