Hi Jody, It worked fine on QEMU ($ qemu -fda full3 -no-fd-bootchk) Nice to see ELKS bringing back to life. Do you think it is possible to port busybox (and uClibc) to 8086? I noticed which summing up just the binaries bigger than 8000 bytes it is more than 300KB : ash 50652 banner 8396 ed 13092 getty 8156 install 14336 ktcp 22148 login 8556 ls 14196 man 15736 passwd 11344 proto 12228 remsync 20096 sash 9792 sh 50652 (symbolic link to ash ?) stty 16148 synctree 18420 tar 8864 telnet 11036 tget 9276 urlget 12376 vi 34980 xargs 8320 Using busybox we could get a complete system (with even more programs) in less than 300KB. Best Regards, Alan On 2/19/12, Jody Bruchon <jody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have taken the liberty of updating the ELKS disk images to include the > shiny new 0.1.4 kernel. I have also noticed many very strange bugs > leading to infinite loops or locking myself out of the system (at least > in QEMU). These can be fixed down the road. I am also going to try to > disassemble the MINIX boot files at some point, since the only boot > loader source we have is the bootsect.S in the kernel tree, which is > useless if you want to load from a filesystem and not just dump the > kernel straight to the disk. Also, note that the floppy signature for > larger disk images is not present, so for QEMU in particular, you must > specify the -no-fd-bootchk option. Once I disassemble the boot code > (don't have time to do it right now), I'll fix this problem as well. > > Anyway, have a look at the disk images: > https://sourceforge.net/projects/elks/files/ELKS%20Disk%20Images/0.1.4/ > > Jody Bruchon > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
