Re: Booting PilOS

2015-07-08 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Geo, Yes! i was able build the image and immediately tried it using my USB stick, it's working!!! but I'm stuck at Checking long mode.. maybe because I'm trying it under an Intel i3? Thanks! That's interesting! i3 is a 64-bit CPU, right? So the check for long mode doesn't work? I would at

Re: Booting PilOS

2015-07-08 Thread George Orais
Hi Alex, That's interesting! i3 is a 64-bit CPU, right? So the check for long mode doesn't work? I would at least expect an error message. Yes it is also a 64-bit, just now i also got the same result here at my room's PC which is an AMD64, how is the checking done btw? The checks are done in

Re: Booting PilOS

2015-07-08 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Geo, OK did a quick peek and most of them are in x86 assembly hmmm Yeah. Basically calls to the 'cpuid' instruction to question the CPU for its parameters. I see, so it means it got stuck somewhere on the checking, would it be possible to be inside an infinite loop? I believe that the

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Re: Booting PilOS

2015-07-08 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Mattias + Geo, Alex, you already got the following results, I'm just reposting them to the list as well. Yes, thanks! I have tried PilOS on the following machines: ... *Lenovo Thinkpad x201i, i3 cpu Fails with the message READ ERROR 08 *Lenovo Thinkpad x230, i5 cpu Fails with

Re: Booting PilOS

2015-07-08 Thread Mattias Sundblad
Hi George and Alex, Yes! i was able build the image and immediately tried it using my USB stick, it's working!!! but I'm stuck at Checking long mode.. maybe because I'm trying it under an Intel i3? Let me try it with my AMD machine back in my room and feedback to you how it goes... this is

Re: Booting PilOS

2015-07-08 Thread George Orais
Hi Alex, Oops, sorry. My fault! init/.pil/history was added recently, and I forgot to include it into the release script. Please download once more pilos.tgz. Yes! i was able build the image and immediately tried it using my USB stick, it's working!!! but I'm stuck at Checking long mode..

Re: Booting PilOS

2015-07-08 Thread George Orais
Hi Alex, Another feedback is i try to boot it on my VirtualBox and I'm seeing Loading PilOS but its already a while, is this expected? BR,Geo On Wednesday, July 8, 2015 4:41 PM, George Orais gpor...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Alex, Oops, sorry. My fault! init/.pil/history was added

Re: Booting PilOS

2015-07-08 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Geo, Another feedback is i try to boot it on my VirtualBox and I'm seeing Loading PilOS but its already a while, is this expected? No, it all goes in a tiny fraction of a second. Normally, you don't see any of the messages. I think other people also tried VirtualBox, and said it doesn't