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by andymc
Mon May 18, 2020 10:52 pm
Forum: General
Topic: My experiences with Visopsys install on QEMU virt disk
Replies: 38
Views: 118639

Re: My experiences with Visopsys install on QEMU virt disk

ronaldlees wrote: Mon May 18, 2020 5:31 pm I wanted to give you quick heads up on the change of network success. This is starting to look pretty dang good!
Oh - and thank you! :obscene-drinkingcheers:
by andymc
Mon May 18, 2020 10:23 pm
Forum: General
Topic: My experiences with Visopsys install on QEMU virt disk
Replies: 38
Views: 118639

Re: My experiences with Visopsys install on QEMU virt disk

Hi Ron,

Well, I'm glad that things seem to be working now for you (even if I lament the missed opportunity to debug these maddening interrupt snafus).

If you open up a command prompt, and try something like "host visopsys.org", does it give any error info?
by andymc
Mon May 18, 2020 10:20 pm
Forum: Partition Logic
Topic: Won't finish booting
Replies: 15
Views: 58755

Re: Won't finish booting

Hi hooptydoopty The problem that Ron was having over in the Visopsys forum seems to have been transient, and I can't reproduce it either. I started looking at your description of your system. This 'Bolton' chipset triggered a memory, and a search of earlier posts turned up this: https://visopsys.org...
by andymc
Sun May 03, 2020 11:12 pm
Forum: General
Topic: My experiences with Visopsys install on QEMU virt disk
Replies: 38
Views: 118639

Re: My experiences with Visopsys install on QEMU virt disk

I do think that if I could reproduce this with qemu it would be very useful. I've got a user over in the Partition Logic forum with an apparent interrupt problem, and I'm hopeful that there's just some nuance of APIC setup (or PCI device setup, or interrupt acknowledgement) that I've missed. As I sa...
by andymc
Sun May 03, 2020 11:04 pm
Forum: General
Topic: My experiences with Visopsys install on QEMU virt disk
Replies: 38
Views: 118639

Re: My experiences with Visopsys install on QEMU virt disk

Hi Ron, thanks for getting back to me so quickly. I'm a qemu noob, so I didn't do anything other than your 2 commands: qemu-img create -f raw ./visopsys.img 200M qemu-system-i386 -m 200M -netdev tap,id=t0,ifname=tap0,script=no,downscript=no -device pcnet,netdev=t0,id=nic0 -cdrom ./visopsys.iso -boot...
by andymc
Sun May 03, 2020 10:13 pm
Forum: General
Topic: My experiences with Visopsys install on QEMU virt disk
Replies: 38
Views: 118639

Re: My experiences with Visopsys install on QEMU virt disk

I'm reading that Qemu and almost all other virtualization software has plenty of issues with interrupt virtualizations. Qemu was mentioned specifically as having such issues prior to v2.9. I'll check the version I'm using. OTOH, Visopsys v0.82 worked OK with pcnet. I think you're using VMware? Huh....
by andymc
Sun May 03, 2020 10:33 am
Forum: Partition Logic
Topic: Won't finish booting
Replies: 15
Views: 58755

Re: Won't finish booting

Hello, OK, great, thanks for the info. I have another report (in the Visopsys forum) of a similar kind of thing with these unhandled interrupts. However he's getting it with an emulator, so I can run that here and try to debug it hands-on. I think I'll focus on that and hopefully whatever I turn up ...
by andymc
Sun May 03, 2020 10:29 am
Forum: General
Topic: My experiences with Visopsys install on QEMU virt disk
Replies: 38
Views: 118639

Re: My experiences with Visopsys install on QEMU virt disk

when I set QEMU to use the pcnet nic, I got debug messages about interrupt handling. Here's a screen shot (sorry for the poor picture): Hi Ron. Argh. I saw a similar kind of thing with unhandled interrupts on my dev PC. That was when I (unknowingly) had my disk controller set to legacy IDE mode for...
by andymc
Tue Apr 28, 2020 10:11 pm
Forum: Partition Logic
Topic: Won't finish booting
Replies: 15
Views: 58755

Re: Won't finish booting

Also, can you tell me anything about the hardware? Make and model? I might be able to look up the motherboard specs. Is it a laptop?
by andymc
Tue Apr 28, 2020 10:06 pm
Forum: Partition Logic
Topic: Won't finish booting
Replies: 15
Views: 58755

Re: Won't finish booting

Oh, and I don't have a 'legacy' setting available for the SATA controller, only IDE and RAID. Ah right, all the BIOS vendors have their own ways of labeling things. 'IDE' is the same as the legacy mode I was trying to describe. As I said, it might be interesting to see whether temporarily switching...