scupt-tc real hardware: 0/3

[Guido Witmond]

On 07/05/2018 07:57 PM, Paul Dufresne wrote:
> Oh well, I am like a returning Genode user, for almost ... one and an 
> half year I guess.
> 
> I am glad to see that there is now an image (a USB one... I would guess 
> it would not work on a DVD?).
> 
> I have downloaded it yesterday, and tried it on 3 computers (2 almost 
> the same: Dell Optiplex 745, not sure the other is a 745 too).
> One of the two is my own computer, and I have try many BIOS config, but 
> it does always do the same:
> show the Logo, screen become black for about 7 secs... then it reboots 
> and loop.

Hi Paul,


Welcome back ;-)

I noticed the same boot loop on a Dell Optiplex 380. This one is so old 
it has a serial and parallel port. The serial port showed me some boot 
lines and if I remember correctly it was something about missing video 
card before the reboot. If someone wants, I can capture that serial log 
and hardware specs.

I'm not sure if the GMA 4500 video chip is supported by Genode, if you 
have an old VESA video card lying around, you might have some more luck 
on the Dell.

I ran Sculpt on a 6 year old Sandy Bridge Pentium (G620) with built-in 
video chip, that runs great, after some trouble with network and usb. 
Genode likes my Intel gbit Nic better than the RTL 8111/8169. I got some 
spurios hangs on the latter.

It also booted on my AMD Ryzen 5 system but it did not detect SATA 
drives. Nor did virtualisation work. Both Vbox and Seoul hang. Better 
than I expected but not usable yet.


Hope this encourages you to keep going on with Genode :-)

Cheers, Guido.