Re:ELKS: Linux for 16-bit Intel Processors
by ikari_pl on Sunday January 05, 2025 @03:55AM
(#42600568)
I'm totally going to run it on an Amstrad PPC640 soon :)))
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Re:ELKS: Linux for 16-bit Intel Processors
by YakBizzarro on Sunday January 05, 2025 @07:28AM
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Well, for that you need to fit it on a 720k floppy :) Unless you modded it with a 1.44 drive
Re:ELKS: Linux for 16-bit Intel Processors
by ghaerr on Sunday January 05, 2025 @10:30AM
(#42602414)
Yes it runs on that Amstrad. A funny story about the Amstrad, at one point we added divide-by-zero trap handler in the kernel for user space apps. When the Amstrad reboots via our 'shutdown', its gets a div zero exception in its own BIOS (which at the time prohibited the reboot, lol).
Re:ELKS: Linux for 16-bit Intel Processors
by kolleykibber on Monday January 06, 2025 @05:28PM
(#42616755)
I'm having a play on the PPC640 with a Gotek running Flashfloppy with fd720-fat.img
It's erroring after the mount with panic:No init or sh found SYSTEM HALTED. BOOT:
The computer is unreponsive at the boot: prompt.
I've tried a few different settings in the ff.cfg, but no joy. Could it be a Gotek issue?
Re:ELKS: Linux for 16-bit Intel Processors
by ghaerr on Monday January 06, 2025 @09:33PM
(#42618524)
Open up an issue on GitHub and we can help you better. The usual reason for problems like this is the layout of the image is incorrect on GoTek, and/or the GoTek is set to the wrong CHS (cylinders/head/sector) for the image being used.