Author: KeefskKeefsk Date: May 9, 2008 22:51
Microware, Germany kindly let me have a evaluation version of OS-9 via
a download and I want to try this on the new EEE-PC from Asus which
should be a perfect platform for OS-9000. The problem is that the
distribution from Microware only includes drivers for standard PC
devices and the EEE-PC doesn't support a standard floppy, has a solid
state disk and has a new ethernet chip from Atheros (L2), furthermore
there are no standard serial ports as such. So the problem is how do I
format the solid state "IDE" drive on the EEE-PC?
I can produce a bootable floppy with coreboot, boot and bootfile and
when I use a USB floppy drive connected to the EEE-PC I get as far as
the boot menu. However I can't boot over kermit - no serial ports;
can't boot over ethernet - don't have a driver for the Atheros L2 and
am probably not capable of writing one; can't boot using a PCMCIA
device - the EEE-PC doesn't support PCMCIA; and can't continue to boot
from floppy since the booter is written only to work with an on board
floppy controller and not a USB floppy.
I have included the support for USB in my boot image but the boot menu
doesn't offer this as an option.
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