Discussion:
Pulsar PXE boot?
g***@novadsp.com
2016-12-04 14:15:06 UTC
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Greetings,



I'm trying to get the NOVA/lighttpd scenario booting off real hardware as
the VM solutions are not applicable in my potential use cases.



PXE is generally painless but using Pulsar on both an Intel i5 NUC and an
N3150 (Quad Celeron) the boot process gets this far:



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and then falls silent. Does anyone recognize the issue? Is the Pulsar source
code available?



DD'ing the lighttpd .iso image to a USB drive is odd too. On both machines I
get dumped into the grub shell. I note that it's a very old version (0.97?)
Is there any reason for this?



Please bear with me whilst I get all of the Genode basics worked out here!



MTIA,



Jerry.
Alexander Boettcher
2016-12-07 10:37:02 UTC
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Hello,
Post by g***@novadsp.com
I'm trying to get the NOVA/lighttpd scenario booting off real hardware as
the VM solutions are not applicable in my potential use cases.
PXE is generally painless but using Pulsar on both an Intel i5 NUC and an
https://novadsp.com/images/genode/pulsar-boot.jpg
and then falls silent. Does anyone recognize the issue?
No, works fine for us on several machines without issues. If you can get
to load the files manually via a tftp-client than it should work.

If you're using the Genode/run tool to generate your scenarios, you may
have, depending on your tftp server, to instruct the Genode run tool to
generate config-* files with absolute paths instead of relative (see
tool/run/load/tftp for your options).
Post by g***@novadsp.com
Is the Pulsar source code available?
No, unfortunately.



Alternatively you may try iPXE, see

http://genode.org/documentation/release-notes/15.11#Run-tool_support_for_booting_via_the_iPXE_boot_loader



Cheers,

Alex.
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g***@novadsp.com
2016-12-07 11:24:17 UTC
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Hello Alexander,
Post by Alexander Boettcher
No, works fine for us on several machines without issues. If you can get
to
Post by Alexander Boettcher
load the files manually via a tftp-client than it should work.
Are your targets booting UEFI or old-style BIOS?
Post by Alexander Boettcher
Post by g***@novadsp.com
Is the Pulsar source code available?
No, unfortunately.
A shame.
Post by Alexander Boettcher
Alternatively you may try iPXE, see
http://genode.org/documentation/release-notes/15.11#Run-
tool_support_for_booting_via_the_iPXE_boot_loader
An excellent suggestion and thank you for the link.

Much appreciated,

Jerry.

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