libera/#mezzano - IRC Chatlog

11:37:02 iska so, what do I do with the debug output from my machine?

11:41:16 iska also, mezzano's compiler doesn't seem to know about i.e loop invariants, does it?

11:43:59 froggey it does not

11:44:14 froggey as for the debug output, you read it, fix what went wrong, repeat :)

12:20:33 iska any clue on fixing "could not find boot device"?

12:21:26 iska In kboot console I just entered `mezzano "/image" "no-detect"`

12:56:39 ebrasca Hello

13:39:34 froggey iska: that error means it can't find the boot device (obviously!), the boot device is required during normal operation because the system will swap memory in & out from it

13:40:00 froggey if you boot with no-detect, you disable most hardware detection, so it won't detect any disk drives, so won't be able to find the boot device

13:40:37 froggey there's a special mode "freestanding" which will cause the bootloader to load everything from the boot device into memory, and the system will run directly from that without touching the disk

13:40:53 froggey so you can use "no-detect" "freestanding" to get this, and that might fix it

13:41:25 froggey but the proper/normal/intended way to run is to run with hardware detection enabled and not freestanding

13:42:35 froggey if the local apic is reading all FF, then that's a big problem and indicates that something significant isn't working right and the system probably won't work properly in freestanding mode either

14:03:14 ebrasca froggey: Hello there, how are you doing?

14:05:41 Vinapocalypse Is the suggested form of development to connect emacs voa slink or sly to the server you run via `make run-file-server`?

14:07:14 ebrasca Vinapocalypse: Only slime has support for mezzano at the moment IIRC, I am thinking to add support Mezzano for sly

14:08:42 Vinapocalypse ok ty; i tried setting up slime a couple of years ago without much luck but I will try again

14:13:28 ebrasca Vinapocalypse: At that moment it was probably not upstream

14:31:19 iska froggey: wasn't using freestanding because I use uefi, which runs out of heap right before booting

14:32:02 iska in csm mode it just freezes right after "entering mezzano" message

14:32:54 iska I guess booting from /image and no hardware detection makes mezzano lose the image. Hmm

14:33:09 iska gonna try booting my own image from uefi

14:33:22 iska (was using democd)

15:13:04 fitzsim Vinapocalypse: I would recommend trying M-x slime-connect instead of M-x slime, at least initially, so that you can specify the settings interactively

15:13:42 fitzsim iska: read the kboot configuration; as I recally it has comments; and there are not that many settings so just try a bunch of combos

15:22:18 iska oh, booting my own image in uefi doesn't give any output...

15:22:35 iska I don't know then