Re: [Freedos-devel] The FreeDOS Kernel as downloadable from GITHUB no longer works

2022-10-27 Thread Andy Stamp
Could you share the specific floppy/RAM options for VirtualBox and what version you are running? I was able to build the kernel from Linux with OpenWatcom 1.9 and run it in VirtualBox (v6.1 32MB RAM, 1.44MB floppy, no hard drive) and on my P1-75 (24MB RAM, 1.44 and 1.2MB floppy and 2GB CF). The de

Re: [Freedos-devel] The FreeDOS Kernel as downloadable from GITHUB no longer works

2022-10-27 Thread tom ehlert
> Does it make a difference on your computer if the kernel is > compiled for 386+ vs 86+  ?  Was this on real computer or virtual?  it was a VirtualBox machine. I only changed in build.bat from build.b the compiler setting, using OCWIN, so it probably was 8086 of course I have a very specific fl

Re: [Freedos-devel] The FreeDOS Kernel as downloadable from GITHUB no longer works

2022-10-27 Thread tom ehlert
> correcting for this, the the boooting kernel goes as far as > I'm looking into this, seems to be some sort of memory corruption.  > On my test VirtualBox vm it works fine, on my laptop I get a halt > but much later than you, where FreeCom is loading.  The gcc compiled > kernel works in all my

Re: [Freedos-devel] Bonus/Devel CD

2022-10-27 Thread Danilo Pecher
Hi all, I say the most important thing first - I'm not very keen on a Live DVD. One of the things that severely goes on my man-mammaries is that every Linux, BSD and whatnot nears the 1GB mark, when a basic system install could easily fit in a 300MB image. I don't think we have too many casual use

Re: [Freedos-devel] The FreeDOS Kernel as downloadable from GITHUB no longer works

2022-10-27 Thread perditionc
On Tue, Oct 25, 2022, 6:05 AM tom ehlert wrote: > > Sorry, > > I posted this under the wrong topic. > > so: > > when downloading https://github.com/FDOS/kernel via > > [code] downnload ZIP > > the downloaded kernel-master\country directory is empty, and the > project does not build. > This is a