Re: corruption of /usr with cfdisk

1999-09-07 Thread Robert de Bath
Put your partition table back exactly as it was before you can delete partitons and re-create them but don't mkfs, dont anything else. Does the fs check ? If so you're saved, you may have to re-run lilo from your panic boot. If you don't know the exact positions you can experiment, you don't nor

Re: [Fwd: syntax doc. about as86]

1999-09-07 Thread Robert de Bath
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Thierry DELHAISE wrote: > > > I'm translatting the assembler source code of Linux (as86) to Nasm > > > syntax. I need to understand the syntax of as86 wich is (very??) > > > different from Nasm's one, in particular : > > > > > > > > movb4(di),*36; (What mean the *

Re: [Fwd: syntax doc. about as86]

1999-09-07 Thread David Murn
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Thierry DELHAISE wrote: > movb4(di),*36; (What mean the * prefix of value 36) > ; does 4(di) means [di+4] ??? Simple answer. Assemble it under as86 and see what comes out :) Davey

OS development

1999-09-07 Thread Creslin287
Does anybody on the list know where some docs, HOWTO's, books, etc are(preferably on the net) on the theories behind OS/kernel development and maybe how to implement them? I'm hoping there's something out there not necassarily on linux but on OS/kernel development in general. Matthew Fredric

Re: OS development

1999-09-07 Thread David Murn
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anybody on the list know where some docs, HOWTO's, books, etc > are(preferably on the net) on the theories behind OS/kernel development and > maybe how to implement them? I'm hoping there's something out there not > necassarily on linux but o

Re: OS development

1999-09-07 Thread Matthew Kirkwood
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anybody on the list know where some docs, HOWTO's, books, > etc are(preferably on the net) on the theories behind OS/kernel > development and maybe how to implement them? I'm hoping there's > something out there not necassarily on linux but on O

Re: OS development

1999-09-07 Thread Tracy Camp (Hurrah)
Also a facinating book called the "developement of the BSD 4.4 operating system" not much around that talks about non-unix OSes though. On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Matthew Kirkwood wrote: > On Tue, 7 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Does anybody on the list know where some docs, HOWTO's, books

Re: ELKS 0.0.79 released

1999-09-07 Thread Alistair Riddoch
Werner Heuser writes: > > Alistair Riddoch schrieb: > > > > ELKS 0.0.79 has been released and is available from:- > Hi, > > I tried 'boot' and 'root' from the image file. The worked fine > with my Commodore C286LT. Glad we have fixed that one! > > Still I have some minor problem. I have insta

RE: OS development

1999-09-07 Thread Rod Boyce
What about uCOSII book search on any technical book site and you will find the book describing uCOSII. The book and OS was written by a chap called Jean Laprose ( sorry for the misspelling of his name I am doing this from memory). Regards, Rod Boyce -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PRO

Q: get compile error compiling objdump85

1999-09-07 Thread Henrik Sorensen
Hello I'm just starting into the ELKS system. I'm atempting a make in linux-8086, and I encounter the following error in the ld directory 'objdump86.c:19: initializer element is not constant' I'm running on a Linux Red Hat 6.0 2.2.5-15 #1 Mon Apr 19 22:21:09 EDT 1999 i686 using GCC gcc versio

RE: [Fwd: syntax doc. about as86]

1999-09-07 Thread Greg Haerr
: There's another advantage with this means of conversion that I forgot : to mention. By using macros to retain compatibility with as86, it's : easy to do regression tests to ensure the semantics of the code have not : changed. As I convert the code to use my macros, I periodically run this : mak

Re: ELKS 0.0.79 released

1999-09-07 Thread Denis Brown
Hello. For what it's worth, I have been able to run ELKS 0.0.79 on an IBM PS/2 without any hassles. I seem to recall discussion on this list a while ago suggesting that some oddities with the PS/2's keyboard or mouse port created hassles. Happily that is not the case here. Brief summary: IBM P