On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 10:44:10PM +0200, Ramon van Handel wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Kenneth Arnold wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 02:22:28PM -0400, Kevin Lawton wrote:
> > > Folks,
> > >
> > > Some enhancements and bug-fixes later, and now plex86 boots Linux
> > > normally...kick-ass!!!
>
> Cool! Nice work Kevin!
>
> > Could you run 2.4 in it and run plex86 in that and figure out why it's
> > not working? At least the part about getting the pages (host_reserve_page
> > if my memory serves correctly) is a bit wrong at the moment.
>
> I rather doubt that plex is sophisticated enough already in order to be
> able to run itself...
VMWare still can't... so maybe Bochs there. But this is definately an issue
that needs to be resolved.
> > > I will commit changes to CVS soon after I clean up my current
> > > code.
> >
> > Please do :) quite cool. Have you tried more advanced stuff like X?
>
> Graphics modes don't work yet, only text modes.
> So X wouldn't run, unless you have an AAlib X server? ;)
Well with GGI and the aalib driver and the GGI X server...
But shouldn't SVGA X work? Isn't a VGA BIOS kind of required for running
modern x86 OSes? If VGA won't work, it's likely Windows's pretty splash
screen (eeew...) won't work either. What video mode _does_ that use,
anyway?
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