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- Wed Mar 17, 2021 1:11 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Visopsys 0.91 - Return of the RAMdisk?
- Replies: 24
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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...
- Mon Feb 22, 2021 1:08 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Visopsys 0.91 - Return of the RAMdisk?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 160759
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...
- Wed Feb 17, 2021 11:12 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Visopsys 0.91 - Return of the RAMdisk?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 160759
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 ...
- Fri Jan 01, 2021 7:26 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Visopsys 0.91 - Return of the RAMdisk?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 160759
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...
- Fri Dec 11, 2020 12:19 am
- Forum: Partition Logic
- Topic: Won't finish booting
- Replies: 15
- Views: 61531
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]
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]
- Sun Dec 06, 2020 1:24 am
- Forum: Partition Logic
- Topic: Won't finish booting
- Replies: 15
- Views: 61531
Re: Won't finish booting
Bear with me -- just doing a bit of maintenance/prep work first
- Fri Dec 04, 2020 11:25 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Visopsys 0.91 - Return of the RAMdisk?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 160759
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.
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.
- Fri Dec 04, 2020 11:22 pm
- Forum: Partition Logic
- Topic: Won't finish booting
- Replies: 15
- Views: 61531
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...
- Sat Sep 19, 2020 10:29 am
- Forum: Partition Logic
- Topic: Partition Logic and Oracle VirtualBox
- Replies: 1
- Views: 14957
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
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
- Tue Sep 08, 2020 10:33 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: We are closer to have a web browser now!
- Replies: 1
- Views: 16645
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...