On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Alistair Riddoch wrote:
> kees writes:
> >
> > Hi There,
> >
> > I downloaded elks version 0.8. and the images.zip.
> > I build the Image file, wrote it to floppy. It boots but all ends after:
[snip]
>
> What type of machine are you installing to? What kind of floppy drive do
> you have in it, and what machine did you write the disk on? ave you tried
> the precompiled 'boot' image rather than the comb image? Have previous
> versions of ELKS worked when you tried to boot them the same way?
>
> Al
>
I tried various approaches:
1) wrote the comb file on a Linxu box with dd to the floppy
2) build the Image file on a Linxu box with bcc and the dev86 tools and
wrote the Image file with dd to the floppy.
For the target machine I tried 2 different platforms:
a) A 80286 motherboard with 1MB ram a IDE interface without HD but WITH
2 FD drives attached, a VGS card and an IO card.
b) A 80486 board with an UMC 80486, 16 MB of Ram and further all the ISA
boards from the above setup.
Neither method leads to a completed boot. For the Image file I put some
print statements in the setup code and the boot progresses up to the
jmpi 0x0003,0x1002 call.....
The comb file *does* boot under Dosemu.
BTW in init/main.c the sequence is:
.....
init_IRQ();
init_console();
....
in init_IRQ there is a panic() call, but it looks if the output is not yet
set. This is done in init_console() I believe.......
regards
Kees
