On Sunday 01 February 2009 15:02:49 Won De Erick wrote: > Hello All, > > I am following a tutorial from the following link, but I am stuck at the > bottom of the page. > > http://www.osdever.net/bkerndev/Docs/printing.htm As a sidenote, things *have* happened in the kernel during the last 4 years. > > "Copy your 'kernel.bin' to your GRUB floppy disk, and if all went well, you > should now have a kernel that prints 'Hello World!' on a black screen in > white text!" Hum? Are you creating a bootable disk? Then I guess you have to edit the MBR on that disk as well. I haven't created boot-disks in ages, not since PC's got the ability to boot from a CD ;) What about something like this: sudo grub-install /dev/floppy Assuming you have mounted your floppy at /dev/floppy, otherwise, I guess /dev/fd0 [w|c]ould work. This is, ofcourse, *totally* untested ;) Then you obviously need to set the floppy as the first boot-device in the bios of your target and boot with the floppy in. > I am completely a newbie on this area, and have no idea how to configure > GRUB to load the kernel. As others, said, manually edit /boot/grub/menu.lst or name it vmlinuz- your_version in /boot and run sudo update-grub > I've been googling the web, but most of them suggest for the creation of a > boot floppy disk with GRUB. I don't have that drive on my laptop. > > I am using Ubuntu Linux installed on a VMware 6.5.1. My laptop is Compaq > Presario AMD Athlon-X2. > > # uname -a > Linux pc-vm3 2.6.27-9-generic #1 SMP Thu Nov 20 22:15:32 UTC 2008 x86_64 > GNU/Linux > > Could i run this as a simple a.out? I am getting the following error: > > # chmod +x kernel.bin > # ./kernel.bin > bash: ./kernel.bin: cannot execute binary file You cannot do that. the kernel is *the* kernel, not an elf-image you can execute. It contains everything other programs rely upon the kernel to provide, and, furthermore, it requires to be run in priviliged mode, something user-space programs are not allowed to do. You moost *boot* into this program. > Is there any wrong in the code? See attached zip file. which file? Anyway, you have other errors you need to fix before this becomes relevant anyway. > > Thanks, > > Won > > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with > "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ -- Med vennlig hilsen - Yours Sincerely Henrik Austad -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
