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by nextvolume
Mon Jul 23, 2018 7:06 am
Forum: Partition Logic
Topic: Is it possible to PXE boot Partition Logic /Visopsys?
Replies: 5
Views: 28800

Re: Is it possible to PXE boot Partition Logic /Visopsys?

Yes, it is indeed possible and I have done it in the past, back when 0.74 was current I was tinkering with the kernel a bit, I got the idea to boot Visopsys on a set-top box that netbooted via DHCP. I even implemented a 16-color VGA driver. It worked, but as it had no network support, it was mostly ...
by nextvolume
Mon Nov 16, 2015 7:09 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Console text editor for Visopsys
Replies: 3
Views: 17770

Re: Console text editor for Visopsys

No, I'm not in trouble :D
The free hosting I am using requires logging into cPanel at least once every 21 days or it will suspend the account. Pretty strange and I did not know that! Now everything is fine.
by nextvolume
Mon Nov 09, 2015 7:44 am
Forum: General
Topic: Console text editor for Visopsys
Replies: 3
Views: 17770

Console text editor for Visopsys

This is something I've been working on, on and off, for a while. It's a text editor for the Visopsys console, called TEdit. I'm sorry but I'm not at home currently so there are no screenshots.. but it's completely functional. Source code is here: http://unhaut.x10host.com/tedit.c The only real issue...
by nextvolume
Fri Oct 30, 2015 7:33 am
Forum: General
Topic: Calculator bug fix
Replies: 1
Views: 13558

Calculator bug fix

Hi, the Visopsys calculator cannot compute square root and factorial numbers in 0.8_pre1 The following two one-line fixes will correct this: update_calculator_display((root = calc_result)); must become update_calculator_display((number_field = calc_result = root)); and update_calculator_display((cal...
by nextvolume
Thu Jan 01, 2015 11:50 am
Forum: General
Topic: Visopsys 0.76 Released
Replies: 6
Views: 22295

Re: Visopsys 0.76 Released

It's most likely interrupt related, as disabling APIC makes the kernel boot fine on affected QEMU versions (the one I have installed on my system is among them)
by nextvolume
Sat Dec 27, 2014 9:24 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Announcing VisopsysN 0.75N1
Replies: 5
Views: 20192

Re: Announcing VisopsysN 0.75N1

Thank you. I have just applied the patchset.
by nextvolume
Wed Dec 10, 2014 8:50 am
Forum: General
Topic: Problems with APIC on QEMU
Replies: 28
Views: 79551

Re: Problems with APIC on QEMU

Unfortunately it still won't work on QEMU, I use version 2.1.0.
Just an idea: ever thought about registering if a certain key is pressed in the OS loader, and then disabling APIC if it was?
by nextvolume
Fri Dec 05, 2014 9:11 am
Forum: General
Topic: Problems with APIC on QEMU
Replies: 28
Views: 79551

Re: Problems with APIC on QEMU

Yes, it would be nice if I could try a prelease ISO.
by nextvolume
Thu Dec 04, 2014 10:02 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Problems with APIC on QEMU
Replies: 28
Views: 79551

Re: Problems with APIC on QEMU

I dropped the file in the 0.75N1 source tree and unfortunately it does not work for me in QEMU.
by nextvolume
Thu Dec 04, 2014 1:55 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Announcing VisopsysN 0.75N1
Replies: 5
Views: 20192

Re: Announcing VisopsysN 0.75N1

Yes, a set of release-to-release patches would be helpful to me to keep it in sync.
This compression library you speak of sounds interesting, I look forward to it.
And as usual, thank you :)