Another utility…

Posted on: July 27, 2008 by Mike
Categories: personal, programming

First, good post The Top 50 Proprietary Programs that Drive You Crazy – and Their Open Source Alternatives. Next, I finished a utility to compile message files, a mkmsgf clone. […]

osFree…

Posted on: July 15, 2008 by Mike
Categories: bootldr, OS/2, personal

I have joined the osFree Project at Sourceforge and will keep a mirror of my loader project there. In the process of hooking in the freeLdr micro-FSD calls, I found […]

More and More…

Posted on: July 12, 2008 by Mike
Categories: bootldr, programming

Waste of more time…

Posted on: July 2, 2008 by Mike
Categories: bootldr, programming

Simple? Sure, but better than nothing. Screen capture booting with a Virtual PC drive formated with Bootable JFS: Big hang up is that the IODelay isn’t coming up constant.

My os2ldr project

Posted on: June 29, 2008 by Mike
Categories: bootldr, programming

I have had sometime to play and committed the results to the SVN page: http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/os2ldr

Multiboot PC for FreeDOS, Linux and eComStation

Posted on: June 15, 2008 by Mike
Categories: ecomstation

We at ERACC installed FreeDOS and eComStation for the end-user. We offered to install the Linux as well but the end-user wanted to install the openSuSE 10.3 Linux himself. There […]

More stuff

Posted on: June 7, 2008 by Mike
Categories: OS/2

Steven’s page listing OS/2 Diagnostic Tools and Tips.

JFS BIOS-parameter-block

Posted on: May 26, 2008 by Mike
Categories: bootldr, programming

I think I have the JFS BIOS-parameter-block complete and making sense. A bit late but a fair article: eComStation: Not for Everyone also: multiboot-pc-for-freedos-linux-and-ecomstation Also, non-related, the Phoenix landing yesterday

Entry into os2ldr

Posted on: May 22, 2008 by Mike
Categories: bootldr, programming

Using Bochs I have the entry values into os2ldr when booted with BootJFS. One important note is that any of the filetable structure len fields will depend on the module […]

ah… BootJFS and the process

Posted on: May 18, 2008 by Mike
Categories: bootldr, programming

I’m going to plagiarize from www.osfree.org and modify the text to fit my adventures with BootJFS. At the end of POST procedure the ROM BIOS initializes devices and gives control […]