theGREENzebra wrote:
>
> > We are a ways from booting any real OS. Check back later.
>
> I'll do that. If I were to even try knowing it doesn't work would I run into
> any consequences?
In principle, it would just GPF somewhere, and you should
have no problems whatsoever.
However, don't forget that we're digging much deaper
into the hardware than the average device driver ---
we actually switch away from linux for the duration
of a quantum. This means that if we screw up somewhere,
it's probably screwed up very well. This has happened
a few times and will probably continue to happen
while new features are implemented, eventhough in
principle the developer adding the new code will not
upload crashing code to the CVS (but then, sometimes
this is model-dependant: early versions of
FreeMWare crashed on my SMP box, until I fixed it...)
In principle, this is nothing to worry about -- your
machine will hang, so you'll need to press your reset
button. This should do no harm, BUT --- beware to flush
the disk cache before you run the VM ! Just type `sync'
in a shell, that'll do the trick. If you don't,
any unflushed data at the time of a crash will be lost.
-- Ramon
