Since my server was scheduled to be taken down for a firmware update, I decided to take the opportunity to try out Sculpt OS on bare-metal server hardware. Given the recent discussions about running Sculpt OS in a headless configuration, I was intrigued enough to give it a go - just for fun.
This was tested using the latest Sculpt OS 25.10 release on the NOVA kernel.
Hardware
- Motherboard: ROMED8-2T (pictured below)
- 2x Intel X550-AT2 NIC
- CPU: AMD EPYC 7K62
- Graphics: ASPEED AST2500 BMC
Output of lspci -tv
[22:06 xcp-ng-epyc ~]# lspci -tv
-+-[0000:c0]-+-00.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse Root Complex
| +-00.2 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse IOMMU
| +-01.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
| +-01.1-[c1]--+-00.0 NVIDIA Corporation AD104 [GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER]
| | \-00.1 NVIDIA Corporation Device 22bc
| +-02.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
| +-03.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
| +-03.1-[c2]--+-00.0 NVIDIA Corporation GA102 [GeForce RTX 3090]
| | \-00.1 NVIDIA Corporation GA102 High Definition Audio Controller
| +-04.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
| +-05.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
| +-07.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
| +-07.1-[c3]--+-00.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Function
| | \-00.2 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PTDMA
| +-08.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
| \-08.1-[c4]--+-00.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse Reserved SPP
| \-00.2 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PTDMA
+-[0000:80]-+-00.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse Root Complex
| +-00.2 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse IOMMU
| +-01.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
| +-02.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
| +-03.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
| +-04.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
| +-05.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
| +-07.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
| +-07.1-[81]--+-00.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Function
| | \-00.2 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PTDMA
| +-08.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
| +-08.1-[82]--+-00.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse Reserved SPP
| | \-00.2 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PTDMA
| +-08.2-[83]----00.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
| \-08.3-[84]----00.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
+-[0000:40]-+-00.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse Root Complex
| +-00.2 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse IOMMU
| +-01.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
| +-01.1-[41]----00.0 Sandisk Corp Device 5045
| +-01.3-[42-43]--+-00.0 Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller X550
| | \-00.1 Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller X550
| +-01.4-[44]----00.0 ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM2142/ASM3142 USB 3.1 Host Controller
| +-01.5-[45-46]----00.0-[46]----00.0 ASPEED Technology, Inc. ASPEED Graphics Family
| +-02.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
| +-03.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
| +-04.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
| +-05.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
| +-07.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
| +-07.1-[47]--+-00.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Function
| | \-00.2 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PTDMA
| +-08.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
| +-08.1-[48]--+-00.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse Reserved SPP
| | +-00.1 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse Cryptographic Coprocessor PSPCPP
| | +-00.2 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PTDMA
| | \-00.3 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship USB 3.0 Host Controller
| +-08.2-[49]----00.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
| \-08.3-[4a]----00.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
\-[0000:00]-+-00.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse Root Complex
+-00.2 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse IOMMU
+-01.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
+-02.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
+-03.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
+-03.5-[01]--
+-04.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
+-05.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
+-07.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
+-07.1-[02]--+-00.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Function
| \-00.2 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PTDMA
+-08.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
+-08.1-[03]--+-00.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse Reserved SPP
| +-00.2 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PTDMA
| \-00.3 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship USB 3.0 Host Controller
+-14.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SMBus Controller
+-14.3 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH LPC Bridge
+-18.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship Device 24; Function 0
+-18.1 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship Device 24; Function 1
+-18.2 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship Device 24; Function 2
+-18.3 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship Device 24; Function 3
+-18.4 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship Device 24; Function 4
+-18.5 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship Device 24; Function 5
+-18.6 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship Device 24; Function 6
\-18.7 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship Device 24; Function 7
Unfortunately, the ethernet was not detected by Sculpt, and I did not have much time to setup some pre-installed software, so I was left looking around rather an empty system over the BMC interface. The BMC mouse functionality was not working in Sculpt either, so I had to plug in an external USB mouse instead. The log was not much help in providing some useful diagnosis. Interestingly though, I did spot these error messages which suggest that Sculpt is unable to map any more than 64 of my threads.
