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Hi Qmastery, Ok, that sounds like the best solution for the time being -- making it 2.88. Of course the binaries I'm building now with GCC 9 have some kind of bug in them; they crash on kernel startup. I'm trying to debug that first. But also, I'm in the middle of moving house, so it'll be a little ...

Hi qmastery I've tried gcc down to version 7, which is the lowest binary version available from the mint repos, and the resulting binaries are smaller, but still much too large to build a working, graphical version of the OS that fits on a 1.44M floppy. I've also tried various size optimization tric...

Argh. I've sorted out my differences with gcc 9, but the kernel it generates is about 10% bigger :angry-cussing:, so the filesystem gets filled up, and making a boot floppy is going to require some fancy footwork. If I can't get the latest gcc to make a smaller kernel, continuing to provide a boot f...

Hi qmastery Sorry again for being so slow. Lots going on around here. I also re-installed my OS on my dev workstation, to the latest Mint, and now I have to figure out why I can't build my sources with gcc 9 and the usual gcc-multilib package. It's rejecting my inline assembly bits, trying to build ...

Hi qmastery, sorry for the delay. I haven't had much spare time lately, and I've been working on a couple of Visopsys things already that required all my attention. I got a minute just now and tried the /ramdisk. It seems like the RAM disk loading fails for me in the bootloader? The progress bar sto...

Hmm. I'm trying this out - skipping PIC initialization. It works fine in a VM, but not so much on my dev workstation.

If I can get something working, what format do you prefer to try? ISO image?

[ EDIT: I see that you've earlier stated a preference for USB]

Bear with me -- just doing a bit of maintenance/prep work first

Hi qmastery

That /ramdisk feature ought to still work, in theory. The code went into the latest release. But to be honest I doubt I tested it in the newer version. I'll have to give it a go here and see what it's doing. I'll need to look back at some of the guidance you gave me previously.

Hi hooptydoopty, Sorry for dropping the ball on this one. Yep, life's been a bit different lately! Although I did manage to get a big 0.9 release finished in April. Since then I've been pretty occupied with other stuff. When I've been working on Visopsys, it's for a fairly major, necessary change to...

That's great Steven, thanks for sharing.

Glad to hear it worked and was useful! I haven't tried it with VirtualBox for a while now.

I linked to your item on the News page of partitionlogic.org

Andy