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by andymc
Wed Mar 17, 2021 1:11 am
Forum: General
Topic: Visopsys 0.91 - Return of the RAMdisk?
Replies: 24
Views: 156400

Re: Visopsys 0.91 - Return of the RAMdisk?

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...
by andymc
Mon Feb 22, 2021 1:08 am
Forum: General
Topic: Visopsys 0.91 - Return of the RAMdisk?
Replies: 24
Views: 156400

Re: Visopsys 0.91 - Return of the RAMdisk?

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...
by andymc
Wed Feb 17, 2021 11:12 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Visopsys 0.91 - Return of the RAMdisk?
Replies: 24
Views: 156400

Re: Visopsys 0.91 - Return of the RAMdisk?

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 ...
by andymc
Fri Jan 01, 2021 7:26 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Visopsys 0.91 - Return of the RAMdisk?
Replies: 24
Views: 156400

Re: Visopsys 0.91 - Return of the RAMdisk?

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...
by andymc
Fri Dec 11, 2020 12:19 am
Forum: Partition Logic
Topic: Won't finish booting
Replies: 15
Views: 58742

Re: Won't finish booting

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]
by andymc
Sun Dec 06, 2020 1:24 am
Forum: Partition Logic
Topic: Won't finish booting
Replies: 15
Views: 58742

Re: Won't finish booting

Bear with me -- just doing a bit of maintenance/prep work first
by andymc
Fri Dec 04, 2020 11:25 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Visopsys 0.91 - Return of the RAMdisk?
Replies: 24
Views: 156400

Re: Visopsys 0.91 - Return of the RAMdisk?

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.
by andymc
Fri Dec 04, 2020 11:22 pm
Forum: Partition Logic
Topic: Won't finish booting
Replies: 15
Views: 58742

Re: Won't finish booting

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...
by andymc
Sat Sep 19, 2020 10:29 am
Forum: Partition Logic
Topic: Partition Logic and Oracle VirtualBox
Replies: 1
Views: 14464

Re: Partition Logic and Oracle VirtualBox

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
by andymc
Tue Sep 08, 2020 10:33 am
Forum: General
Topic: We are closer to have a web browser now!
Replies: 1
Views: 16204

Re: We are closer to have a web browser now!

Welcome back doga! That's great -- I sort of started a primitive browser (and a "document canvas" window library thing for rendering) but decided I should focus elsewhere for the time being. Partly because it's hard, time-consuming, etc. Not something you can hack up with a few hours of wo...