FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: x86 boot loader milestone

[Michael Phipps <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2004-04-21 at 12:21:10 [-0400], Axel Dörfler wrote:
> > Would it be a long, hard process to get jam to make such a BFS image for 
> > testing purposes? That would be great.
> 
> Depends. Of course, we want to have an automated build, but it's probably not 
> possible to build an image file containing an OpenBeOS installation that you 
> could use right away with Bochs - the BeOS cache doesn't allow this to work 
> reliably, unfortunately.
> 
> However, it will be possible to install OpenBeOS on a mounted volume using 
> Jam. That one you can use directly to boot from, but again, you won't be able 
> to use it in Bochs until a reboot due to the BeOS cache. There is not much we 
> can do about it.

So /bin/sync doesn't fully flush the cache?
 
> Basically, I understand "beta" to be feature complete, "alpha" to be a work 
> in progress. Actually, I wanted to switch to "alpha" as soon as we have hard 
> drive access. It's hard to estimate the status of the kernel given those 
> levels. Some parts are 100% done, others are 100% missing, many are somewhere 
> in between :)
> And testing is actually something that is a lot of effort as well.

I have to agree with you here. I wouldn't call a kernel that we can't boot from 
BFS to be alpha yet.

Michael