ELKS: Linux for 16-bit Intel Processors

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?

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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.

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Re:ELKS: Linux for 16-bit Intel Processors by ghaerr on Monday January 06, 2025 @10:09PM (#42618735)

Also worth trying would be the 1440k image, as that's the later standard 3.5" floppy format.

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