"Hallo", dear Squeak Purists!
As I am new to this list I introduce myself shortly. As startup entrepreneur I don't (resp. can't) deal with Smalltalk systems, unfortunately. Currently I head costum solutions for consulting professionals, mostly for the (at least objective-c driven) Mac platform. Though, I hope to combine one day my long lasting enthusiasm for "the only one", a fully object-oriented, self-contained, dynamic, open computing environment, with my business efforts. Concerning this, the SqueakNOS platform seems to me the most promising approach towards a next generation platform. I want to say at this point: thank you very much for your terrific work! I understand it is a work in progress with a bulk of challenges yet to face. I'm sorry for not being able to deliver code by myself, as I am not nearly as much into it like you guys, but I hope there will be a chance for contribution. Right now, I want to get my team members get a feeling for this platform and share my excitement about this technique, so they maybe will get onboard too... constructing the future of computing... ;)
That's it, what leads me straight to my question today:
I like to build a custom image for SqueakNOS (for demo purposes). Unfortunately, both "tutorials" I found didn't work out (http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeaknos/2008-September/000101.... and http://web.archive.org/web/20080215000403/people.squeakfoundation.org/articl...).
Possibly it's very dumb question, but: how do I get a bootable SqueakNOS disk image with my own "NOSified" .image and .change files. (I loaded the respective MC-package into the image, but further trials led to an error message, before even GRUB was loading.... Poor skills...)
I would like to get a new (costumized) Squeak4.1 version image running. So how do I accomplish this?
One last question: Am I right, that getting the graphics resolution above simple XGA is a major act beyond some GRUB config? Or is there a easy (or maybe a "dirty", demo-purpose-only) way without coding full video card supply?
Thank you very much for your patience, best regards Michael
Hi!
Sorry for the long posting yesterday, I now solved the problem (Indeed I just messed up the boot sector, accidently...). But now I got SqueakNOS running perfectly with my own images.
One question still remains to me, I didn't find an answer yet. Can Grub Legacy set up another graphics mode (for example 1280x800x32), so that - together with hard coding this resolution in the C code (right?) - SqeakNOS can run in this gfx mode?
Thank you und regards, Michael
Michael J. Zeder wrote:
Sorry for the long posting yesterday, I now solved the problem (Indeed I just messed up the boot sector, accidently...). But now I got SqueakNOS running perfectly with my own images.
Nice to hear that! keep us posted on what you do!
One question still remains to me, I didn't find an answer yet. Can Grub Legacy set up another graphics mode (for example 1280x800x32), so that - together with hard coding this resolution in the C code (right?) - SqeakNOS can run in this gfx mode?
yes, and there's no need to hard code no resolution in the C code. Just change the boot line in GRUB and that's enugh (in fact you can try from the command line in GRUB, or editing an existing line, without changing the menu configuration until you are sure of what you want). If you try to set an unsupported mode you'll get a list of the available modes.
gera
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