AW: Booting with Elks

["Mario Premke" <premke@ess-wowi.de>]

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org
> [mailto:linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org]Im Auftrag von David Given
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 11. Februar 2004 11:59
> An: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org
> Betreff: Re: Booting with Elks
>
>
> On Tuesday 10 February 2004 6:12 pm, Florian Zimmermann wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > when I try to boot the elks boot disk on my toshiba lt1200
> > (8086 cpu, 640k ram) I am getting displayed the error 8000 in an
> > infinite loop. I have also tried the comb disk and a self-made
> > kernel dd'ed on a disk, with same results :(
>
> At what stage? While the kernel is loading, or later (after the
> boot messages
> start to appear)?
>
> I've just tested the latest boot disk --- works fine on dosemu,
> pcemu and a
> real PC. I don't know what the error code is, but it sounds like
> a floppy
> disk problem. You're not using a 1.44MB formatted floppy disk in a 720kB
> drive, are you?
>
> (First time I've looked at ELKS for ages, actually. Wow, it's
> come on. It
> actually looks usable! What's the network code like these days?)

Haven'd had time yet to look at the latest version. Is the compiler now
running on ELKS itself or is there still the bcc cross compiler?

Mario

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