DosHlp Routines

Posted on: August 17, 2008 by Mike
Categories: bootldr, OS/2, programming

In brief, which is all I can do, the os2ldr contains some hardware dependent routines call DosHlp routines. Thanks to Pasha for pointing out that the ddk contains doshlp.inc which […]

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 […]