PilOS Boot Issues
Hi all, it seems that there are still problems with booting PilOS. While it works for me (on Qemu and on my Acer notebook), it hear that on other emulators or hardware people just see a black screen. So I would be glad to find out the reason(s). One reason might be that the image is not recognized as a hard disk: http://reboot.pro/topic/7512-fool-the-bios-booting-any-usb-stick-as-a-hard-disk So I followed the suggestions there, and changed the partition table to two dummy-partitions instead of one. Also, I set one System ID to Linux (83, instead of the arbitrary 22 before), and the other to Linux swap (ID 82). I don't know if this helps though. Also, I added a few diagnostic messages, to see how far it gets. So anybody daring to try it is welcome! As before, PilOS can be downloaded from http://software-lab.de/pilos.tgz and put on an USB-Stick, e.g. on /dev/sdb $ sudo dd if=x86-64.img of=/dev/sdb Then try to boot (only on x86-64 (Amd64) hardware, of course). ♪♫ Alex -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
Re: PilOS Boot Issues
On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 08:02:06PM +0200, Alexander Burger wrote: It seems that virtualbox doesn't support BIOS 0x13 interrupts for Extended Read Sectors calls. It still freezes on the black screen Loading PilOS We guessed that from the fact that this message appears, but not the following Checking long mode. And, for Virtual PC, we get a READ ERROR 01 which means Invalid command (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INT_13). Same. ♪♫ Alex -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
Re: PilOS Boot Issues
Hi Joe, The new version boots fine on qemu under windows 7 x64. Under virtualbox on the same platform, get stuck with a black screen that says Loading PilOS with nothing else displayed For the mailing list: We discussed this in IRC just now. It seems that virtualbox doesn't support BIOS 0x13 interrupts for Extended Read Sectors calls. It still freezes on the black screen Loading PilOS We guessed that from the fact that this message appears, but not the following Checking long mode. ♪♫ Alex -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
