Re: [Freedos-kernel] ke2042: nasm fails to assemble files during build time
On 11/29/2016 3:32 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 11/24/16 00:59, Mateusz Viste wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Your problem is related to the fact that your "nasm" command doesn't call >> nasm.exe directly. Instead, it calls a batch file named nasm.bat which >> has been placed in your %PATH% by the FDNPKG installer. This nasm.bat >> file is pretty straight-forward: >> >>@ECHO OFF >>C:\DEVEL\NASM\NASM.EXE %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 >> >> While in theory such trick should work (and it does work with most other >> utilities out there), somehow it doesn't play out right with nasm. Simply >> edit your CONFIG.BAT to set its XNASM variable to the full path to your >> copy of nasm.exe, and you're done. Enjoy! >> > And pray tell, why? > > -hpa > > > Because, apparently the nasm being called isn't in c:\devel\nasm, so change the path in the nasm.bat file to point to the proper place, and the problem should be solved. Either solution will work. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus -- ___ Freedos-kernel mailing list Freedos-kernel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
Re: [Freedos-kernel] hmmmm
I don't know if it's still available, but pts dos has source that you're allowed to use in your projects. I haven't looked at it recently, so I don't remember what license it was released under, (if any) but I do recall that as long as you held a license for pts dos, you were free to use the source for your own projects, so that may be an option for you, even though I don't remember the dtails. I will have to dig out my copy and see what it said about distribution, I don't remember what that part of the license said. As I said, it's been quite some time. :) -- ___ Freedos-kernel mailing list Freedos-kernel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
Re: [Freedos-kernel] EXT3 support
The only problem with virtual box is that it isn't accessible. Any folks using screen readers are likely to need dosemu instead of virtual box. It may work under orca, but I've not tested that here. Just a point of interest for those who need/want to know. -- ___ Freedos-kernel mailing list Freedos-kernel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
Re: [Freedos-kernel] [Freedos-user] Re : Support for 4k byte sectors
On Jan 14, 2012, at 5:26 PM, Eric Auer wrote: are simply too small to be bootable anyway. I wonder if you should be able to boot from nonstandard sector sizes at all - for example a CD- ROM does not even have a FAT filesystem, so why would you boot from a (raw!) CD-ROM then? Booting from cds and raw cd images would be extremely useful. If I had a pure dos system, I'd be more than happy to fiddle with these changes. Problems are, I'm not the worlds best assembly programmer, and I've unfortunately got no way to (currently) test such changes. However, booting from cd should be supported if possible. As you pointed out, the sector size is embeded (or should be) in the boot info, so I see no reason why this couldn't be handled automatically. It can simply assume 512 bytes if no data is available, and then boot normally. I for one would find the ability to boot from different sector sizes useful (as mentioned above), and I'm sure others would too. What we really could use in dos is the ability to designate a drive for booting (like osx has) so you could change your boot drive dynamically during os execution, so if you wanted to boot from second hd or cd, or floppy regardless of what cmos is configured to, this could be done. I realize this would be not a trivial modification, but especially if iso images could be used for this purpose, it would make dos an extremely valuable troubleshooting tool, as well as allowing a person to access all drives regardless of what os / versions might be on them. Plus, the ability to boot from iso images would allow a whole lot of flexibility for testing and other uses as well. I'd of course have no idea how to do such things, but I'm always willing to learn. :) -- Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d ___ Freedos-kernel mailing list Freedos-kernel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
