Re: [Geekos-devel] User Process Question...?

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

On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 09:52:20PM -0500, Derrick Swinarsky wrote:
> I have downloaded the experimental version 0.1.0 and have compiled it on my win98 machine with cygwin.  I have loaded it into the bochs simulator and it seems to come up with no problem.  But... there are no user processes running.  There is no keyboard echo, scrolling b's or anything.  Have I done something wrong, or is this the intended output?

Now that I've reread your message, I know why user processes aren't
working for you.  Cygwin produces executables in PECOFF format, and
GeekOS only supports ELF executables.  So, I would guess that GeekOS
figures out that the executables aren't in the right format, and
refuses to load them.

Adding PECOFF support wouldn't be too hard if you were inclined to work
on it.  In fact, there is a header file "pecoff.h" in the current sources
which defines some of the offsets and values needed.

-Dave