scupt-tc real hardware: 0/3

[John J. Karcher]

On 07/05/2018 03:32 PM, Guido Witmond wrote:
> 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.

FWIW, I was pleasantly surprised to find that my AMD FX-based system 
mostly worked - the SATA hard drive wasn't detected, but the on-board 
(Realtek) NIC worked, as did an external USB hard drive.

I haven't tried virtualization yet (because I can't wipe the external 
drive), but I will try it when I can.

-- 
   John J. Karcher
   devuser at alternateapproach.com