A2 alpha

[soren renner]

I don't know if everything in this new alpha works, but the tracer now compiles and runs.

[Bernhard T.]

Revision 3630 is here: ftp.lrz.de/transfer/BlueBottle-A2/A2_Rev-3630.iso

[soren renner]

Works well. Except that networking doesn't start up.

[Bernhard T.]

on my dual PIII (see: http://www.ocp.inf.ethz.ch/wiki/Documentation/HardwareCompatibility#toc3) neither Rev 3620 nor 3630 boots from CD (via PLoP)  ...

I have traced it on the serial port:

It hangs with a black screen indefinitely on loading something like USBKeyboard (I don't have the log at hand and could not find any name which rings a bell when looking at PartitionsSetConfig in the Build.Tool with which I created the images).

so: more to come later ...

[staubesv]

Try to disable automatic hardware detection (don't call PCITools.DetectHardware). This also causes USB device drivers to be loaded.

[Bernhard T.]

Hi Sven,

although I scanned the Partitions.SetConfig arguments and the Configuration.XML (located in ../Test/System.zip) on my build system, I could not find the place where PCITools.Detecthardware might be called.

In the mean time I realized that this system had both a PS/2 and a USB mouse connected. I removed the USB mouse and now it boots nicely.

Should I try anything further?

Apparently the reason for the hanging is the combination of an USB mouse and a PS/2 style keyboard. I attached the serial loog of several attempts (successful and hanging during initializing the usb keyboard).

regards
   Bernhard
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[soren renner]

Works well. Except that networking doesn't start up.

Which was of course a hardware issue.