how to install Genode on PC machine

[Ivan Loskutov]

Hi,
it's known issue https://github.com/genodelabs/genode/issues/593

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Ivan Loskutov



2013/4/8 yuqing wang <happymoodmglm at ...9...>

> Hi,
> I want to run l4linux on real hardware to do some research about its
> network.I use l4linux.run script to create the files which I would copy to
> my hard disk.I also modified the menu.lst file in my PC according to the
> menu.lst in l4linux.iso file created by run script.
> The motherboard of my PC is DELL OptiPlex 330,CPU is Intel Pentium dual
> e2180 @ 2.00GHz . It has a broadcom BCM5787 Enthernet Card on board and I
> use  another intel 82541PI Ethernet Card.Because qemu use the intel 82540
> series Ethernet card as default,so I think intel 82541 is supported.
> When I tried to boot l4linux from hard disk ,there is something wrong with
> nic_drv:
>
> [init -> nic_drv] memory allocation failed in alloc_memblock (size=2048,
> align=800, offset=0)
> [init -> nic_drv] memory allocation failed in alloc_memblock (size=2048,
> align=800, offset=0)
>
> the whole log file is attached.
> I find the source file which would print the error message.It is
> 'genode/dde_ipxe/src/lib/dde_ipxe/dde_support.cc', 'dde_alloc_memblock'
> function.But I don't know how to debug it.
> Any help is appreciated.
> Regards.
>
>
>
> 2013/3/27 Jian Liu <gjk.liu at ...9...>
>
>> Thanks all, I will try it.
>>
>>       Jian LIU
>> ----
>> email to: gjk.liu at ...9...
>>
>>
>> 2013/3/27 Ivan Loskutov <loskutov.ivan at ...9...>
>>
>>> Hi Jian,
>>>
>>> I recommend you to make bootable USB flash or setup network boot.
>>> For booting you can use Grub or Grub2, but genode's vesa driver can't
>>> use some modern video adapters, and it can be solved with using patched
>>> version of Grub from Adam Lackorzynski
>>> http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/~adam/grub/
>>> Step-by-step guide with grub 1.xx bootloader:
>>> 1. Create bootable USB-flash with grub 1.xx
>>> 2. Copy directories fiasco and genode from your
>>> BUILD_DIR/var/run/BUILD_NAME to usb disk, example for demo run script :
>>> cd BUILD_DIR; cp -R var/run/demo/fiasco
>>> /mnt/usb; cp -R var/run/demo/genode /mnt/usb
>>> 3. Copy grub config from BUILD_DIR/var/run/BUILD_NAME/boot/grub/menu.lst
>>> to usb disk, example: cp var/run/demo/boot/grub/menu.lst
>>> /mnt/usb/boot/grub/menu.lst
>>> 4. Boot from usb flash on PC
>>>
>>> If you would like to use Grub2 you need rewrite Grub menu.lst in Grub2
>>> format.
>>>
>>> Genode supports most of modern hardware, and you don't need usually to
>>> special config for drivers.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ivan Loskutov
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2013/3/26 Jian Liu <ljian236 at ...9...>
>>>
>>>> Hi Norman,
>>>>
>>>>    With your help, I have now some experiences on Genode, such as
>>>> building and demo it in Qemu. I have also learned about the whole
>>>> structure of source code and some calling relastionship in the system.
>>>> Now I try to install Genode in my PC (the physical machine) and boot
>>>> it from hard drivers. So I can see avaliablity and response time from
>>>> applications such as Arora, which is really some slow in Qemu. But I
>>>> don't know to do it. Could you give me some directions? Thanks.
>>>>
>>>>    I have found some guy sent similar question in the mail list last
>>>> year as,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=4FB142EF.2080407%40genode-labs.com&forum_name=genode-main
>>>>
>>>>    But there is no detail explainations and steps how to do it. I
>>>> wonder if there is any document on how to install Genode in a PC.
>>>> Which hardwares does it support now? and how to config drivers code
>>>> for network card, usb etc?
>>>>
>>>>      Best,
>>>>
>>>>      Jian
>>>>
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