Denis Vasilyev

> What is the clock frequency of your PC, do you know? CPU is 4.77MHz The analog of i8253 used in this computer has maximum frequency of 2MHz. > What...

> When did the screen start displaying "kbd_poll got 2267"? This means that a keyboard character was received! Were you typing at the time? Yes, I was typing. However, this...

> Here is what the screen should look like. Make sure you "make clean; make". Attached is also the config file I'm using. Yes. This is how it looks like...

> It seems we're getting multiple issues mixed up here. I suggest testing first on your desktop, and seeing if ELKS runs well or not. We know ELKS works well,...

> You're probably not holding your finger on the drive hard enough ;) Btw, I have got now a new floppy drive. No more fingers required to boot ELKS or...

> ASM source code. Nope. No ASM source code for МК-88 BIOS

> Then, you can add back in the printk's, and see what proper desktop looks like. As I mentioned, it is proper to display the hex values I described, depending...

I wonder why the size of printk message (`printk(".");` vs `printk("kbd poll\n");`) affects the booting behaviour on my 8088 computer. Is there overfilling of some buffer?

> Can you tell us more about your system? What is the programmable interrupt controller (PIC)? Is it an 8259? Are there other devices attached to it? Yes, it is...

Hi @ghaerr and everyone, I was poking around with some more low-level tests and found one strange thing about my computer. In particular, after seeing random behaviour of ELKS with...