Re: [Geekos-devel] Problems booting on real hardware ...

[David H. <da...@cs...>]

Hi Garret,

Sorry to take so long to reply.  The message is coming from
the ReadSector function in bootsect.asm.  The "0001" is an
error code returned from the BIOS read diskette sectors
function, so apparently there is some problem reading a sector
from the floppy.  The "DEAD" just indicates that after 3 tries,
the boot sector gave up.

Why this is happening, I'm not really sure.  I could send you
a floppy image compiled under Linux, to see if it's a problem
with your toolchain.

-Dave

On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 10:30:56PM -0400, Garret Kelly wrote:
> Hello,
>  
> I have the 0.0.1c release of GeekOS, and am having a problem getting it
> to boot on any real hardware. Compiled from source GeekOS runs perfectly
> under bochs, but as soon as I try and boot it on a real computer it
> simply prints
>  
> 100010001000DEAD
>  
> And halts. I have tried the following CPUs: Intel Pentium 4, Intel
> 486DX4-S, and a Duron, with the same results on each.
> I have compiled on the latest version of Cygwin under Windows XP, with
> gcc 2.95.3-5, and ld-2.11.92.
>  
> I've checked the geekos-devel archives, and no one seems to have
> mentioned this before.
>  
> Is this a known problem? Or a problem unique to me?
>  
> -Garret