I’m trying to move up from running on a VM to bare metal, what’s the recommended hardware to use?
My desktop boots past the Genode logo to a mouse but does not load the full Leitzentrale, and my laptop gets closer but cannot find the WiFi. So instead I’m looking at a Christmas gift of a new-to-me laptop. Is the T460p still the recommended choice?
thanks!
Is the T460p still the recommended choice?
It is still a reasonable choice. That being said, personally I would start looking at a generation above that, e.g., T470, as those should officially support NVMe drives.
Will do,
I had ruled that one out because Unofficial Genode HCL didn’t report WLAN support. Any reason not to go farther to 480? And it didn’t say explicitly but does the S, P, or blank model parts matter for support?
Whilst you refer to your desire for a laptop to replace an incompatible desktop, I can recommend those micro PCs that were (indeed still are) popular in the corporate scene.
I brought a little Dell Optiplex 3060 from a firm that reconditions and resells corporate machines over eBay and this form factor is currently more plentiful on their listings than laptops. It was acquired to be able to run Haiku and Genode and am pleased to report it works very well with both these OS.
Huh, the specs look pretty similar to my desktop (i5-6600k which has intel graphics 530, 16GB DDR4 ram). Maybe it’s that the monitor was plugged into a GPU
Removed the GPU, and it now hangs on the logo screen. Is there a guide on how to read serial output from this state? I have one of these guys if it helps:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0BM3CHJVM?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title
I had ruled that one out because Unofficial Genode HCL didn’t report WLAN support.
Well, this list is pretty much frozen in time as I stopped updating it (hence the disclaimer) because by now Sculpt OS works reasonable well on a wide range of systems. Maybe it’s time to retire the website and perhaps provide this information in a different form (a Supported hardware categorie in this forum where everyone could create a thread for their machine comes to mind).
Any reason not to go farther to 480?
Not all, that should be fine as well.
And it didn’t say explicitly but does the S, P, or blank model parts matter for support?
It depends more on the exact systems configuration than the model itself, e.g. P models could contain an (additional?) Nvidia GPU that is of limited use on Genode. So the components used in the different models cater to different use-cases—being more portable (S) and sustaining more load (P)—but generally speaking are mostly on par when it comes to Genode.
Could you double-check the boot setting in the BIOS? Some BIOSes offer the choice between “legacy”, “UEFI”, or “both”. According to my observations with various Thinkpads, the latter option (“both”) reliably does not work with Sculpt OS.
Let me express a big 
for this idea!
There’s already a Hardware category, I’ve added it to the defaults list on the left
The release images of Sculpt have serial output disabled, so you would have to compile Sculpt yourself.
I uploaded today a new debug image which also contains a Sculpt test variant with serial log output enabled, see Build / downloaded img freezes on chromebook - #4 by alex-ab
Thanks for adding the hardware category. How can I use it for my two articles (Evaluation of hardwaresupport for ThinkPad X380 Yoga and Evaluation of hardwaresupport for the Framework 16 notebook)?
By the way, are there any experiences with convertible notebooks except my Lenovo X380? I am asking because I am thinking about to replace my device.
I moved both to the Hardware category