7 Jan
2015
7 Jan
'15
9:17 p.m.
* Jacob Goense <dugo(a)xs4all.nl> [2015-01-06 20:50:23]:
On 2015-01-06 20:38, Milo Velimirović wrote:
You have to inform the emulator that You are booting from floppy.
The message no rootdev(4,15) means no floppy there (4 major 15 minor number).
Installator awaits media on the floppy.
But I had tested only virtual box.
Andrzej
On Jan 6, 2015, at 12:41 PM, random832(a)fastmail.us
wrote:
A quick try with bochs bails out on me, but at least reveals the version:
COHERENT Tertiary boot Version 1.2.7
If installing COHERENT, please type "begin".
? begin
Loading COHERENT.
-
Loading COHERENT data.
[-screen clears-]
*** COHERENT Version 4.2.10 - 386 Mode. 5712KB free memory. ***
Color. NDP=387. 2528 buffers. 2521 buckets. 64 clists.
256KB kalloc pool. 0 KB phys pool.
Cyrix OEM CPU Detected
Copyright 1982, 1994 Mark Williams Company
fd0: <Door Open>
PANIC : fsminit: no rootdev(4,15)
Call backtrace: -> ffc28142 -> ffc19129 -> ffc002b6
If you want to run COHERENT in a VM this is mandatory reading.
http://thebeezspeaks.blogspot.com/2012/02/my-life-with-coherent-part-1.html
http://thebeezspeaks.blogspot.nl/2012/05/my-life-with-coherent-part-2.html
/Jacob
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https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs On Tue, Jan 6, 2015, at 11:48, Rico Pajarola
wrote:
I had exactly that thought after I downloaded the tar ball this
morning. Any suggestions for a VM config that would facilitate this
would be welcome. Otherwise I???m going to stumble through virtual box
and see what happens. adding the list back
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Michael Kerpan <mjkerpan(a)kerpan.com>
wrote:
>This is a cool development. Does this code build into a working
>version of
>Coherent or is this mainly useful to study? Either way, it should be
>interesting to look at the code for a clone specifically aimed at
>low-end
>hardware.
In the "distrib" directory there are four files exactly 1440 kb in size
- maybe someone could try loading those into a VM/Emulator?