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I'm on Debian 12 as well. Same `make` version as well. Works. It does not look like ELKS build uses your (exotic) $PS1 to set something odd, but I'm not...
For me personally, the only viable interface into my 286-PC is and remains the floppy image. Hence, I like the idea of multiple FD images, one bootable, and the other...
> Calculating block sizes and handling files that span across multiple floppies would be a lot more work... I was not thinking that complex to be honest. We can keep...
> In the kernel we could then, before the init process is spawned, check: > "am I" booted from floppy? AND did I detect a HD during boot? > if...
Thanks for your feedback! Yes, it was more of a nice tour to learn, hence no PR ;-) I like the idea though, since then ELKS would be smarter than...
> There is currently no way to actually unmount root and have the kernel continue running safely That's what I wanted to learn ;-) Chicken & Egg, huh? How do...
I agree to the above from @toncho11 and also a side comment on a PR from @ghaerr. If a better installer/updater is appreciated, we should have some kind of requirements/design...
I was quite a time off in this project, but recently (2 weeks ago?) I checked out again, pulled from git/master and built a floppy image, which was stuck on...
> FAT is slower than Minix This was my main reason to use Minix, FAT was (not measured, but guessed) 50% slower compared to Minix on real hardware.