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[News] Bring out yer AROS bootlogs!ANN.lu
Posted on 05-Jul-2002 22:50 GMT by Fabio Alemagna11 comments
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Want to help AROS development but don't have programming knowledges? Don't worry, here's a way for you to contribute to the AROS effort. If you have two computers at home, one of which must by force be a PC IBM AT compatible, please try out this floppy image and follow the instructions below:

1) Connect the two machines trough a null-modem cable
2) Start a terminal program on one machine and set it to 9600 bps, 8 data bits, No parity, 1 stop bit. Start logging.
3) Boot up the AROS image on the PC and let the boot log flow trough your serial cable.
4) When finished, please email the log to aros-bootlogs@lists.sourceforge.net

The more time you keep AROS running the more informations will be logged, the more you'll help AROS development.

Thank you for your support!
Fabio Alemagna
AROS Developer

Bring out yer AROS bootlogs! : Comment 1 of 11ANN.lu
Posted by Fabio Alemagna on 05-Jul-2002 20:54 GMT
Forgot to say that the cable has to be connected to the COM1 port on the PC.
Fabio Alemagna
Bring out yer AROS bootlogs! : Comment 2 of 11ANN.lu
Posted by cOrpse on 05-Jul-2002 21:47 GMT
In reply to Comment 1 (Fabio Alemagna):
How about a vmware machine ? i could do a live online log , can't reset this pc tho :(
Bring out yer AROS bootlogs! : Comment 3 of 11ANN.lu
Posted by Fabio Alemagna on 05-Jul-2002 22:01 GMT
In reply to Comment 2 (cOrpse):
Well, the main purpouse of this request is to get as much informations about HW configurations as possible, so to solve problems and improve things. VMWare provides the same, virtual, environment everywhere it runs and, besides, we can run VMWare as well :)
Fabio Alemagna
Bring out yer AROS bootlogs! : Comment 4 of 11ANN.lu
Posted by Adam Chodorowski on 05-Jul-2002 22:02 GMT
In reply to Comment 2 (cOrpse):
You are ofcourse welcome to try, but it is a bit unsure how well AROS works with VMWare.
Bring out yer AROS bootlogs! : Comment 5 of 11ANN.lu
Posted by cOrpse on 05-Jul-2002 22:12 GMT
In reply to Comment 4 (Adam Chodorowski):
The disk boots and sticks at the text part on connectix virtual pc for windows , i'll try vmware later ( i prefer vpc for dibbling in bsd and playing old games ) but the two don't get on well ( their network stuff ) clashes.
I'll do it on the real pc later when this divx finishes encoding :)
I've got 4 different x86 boxes here ,~1ghz p3 and oc'ed celeron voodoo 5 systems , a 700 celeron gateway box ( amithlon doesn't work on that ) and a dusty old 133 box too , i'll do it on all of um if i get the time and find the adaptor for my amiga null modem cable to the 9 pin pc ports.
Bring out yer AROS bootlogs! : Comment 6 of 11ANN.lu
Posted by cOrpse on 05-Jul-2002 22:15 GMT
In reply to Comment 4 (Adam Chodorowski):
"You are ofcourse welcome to try, but it is a bit unsure how well AROS works with VMWare."
IIRC aros did run nicely under the latest vmware .... it also ran nicely on 30 boxes at college :D , only way i could show people ~amigaOs on the crappy pc's :)
Bring out yer AROS bootlogs! : Comment 7 of 11ANN.lu
Posted by Fabio Alemagna on 05-Jul-2002 22:19 GMT
In reply to Comment 5 (cOrpse):
> The disk boots and sticks at the text part on connectix virtual pc for windows
If there's any way for you to save the log, please send it to aros-bootlogs@lists.sourceforge.net
Bring out yer AROS bootlogs! : Comment 8 of 11ANN.lu
Posted by cOrpse on 05-Jul-2002 22:24 GMT
In reply to Comment 7 (Fabio Alemagna):
Still trying to do it hehe , may have to put a cable between com 1 and 2 if thats safe ? you can rest assured you'll have to log as soon as i work out lol
Bring out yer AROS bootlogs! : Comment 9 of 11ANN.lu
Posted by Fabio Alemagna on 05-Jul-2002 22:31 GMT
In reply to Comment 8 (cOrpse):
> may have to put a cable between com 1 and 2 if thats safe ?
Provided it's a null-modem cable, yes, it should be safe. I don't take any responsibility for any sort of damages caused by your operations, though :-P
Anyway, doesn't VirtualPC have any option to redirect the serial output to a file or something?
Bring out yer AROS bootlogs! : Comment 10 of 11ANN.lu
Posted by cOrpse on 05-Jul-2002 22:38 GMT
In reply to Comment 9 (Fabio Alemagna):
I told vpc to use a file ( what ever it means by that ? ) and it didn't do anything , getting something at the moment that creates two linked virtual serial ports . i'll give vpc one and the windows terminal thing the other , hopefully that'll work.
its been a day of discovery
Bring out yer AROS bootlogs! : Comment 11 of 11ANN.lu
Posted by cOrpse on 06-Jul-2002 00:12 GMT
In reply to Comment 9 (Fabio Alemagna):
Hmm nothing seems to be able to make a log .... strange ... but i don't see virtual pc as a big target for aros :) , unless it doesn't work on mac version either ... but IIRC the mac version is more emu like with the windows version only emulating the gfx card ( trio 32 / 64 IIRC ) as standard.
At any rate i'll try to dig out my null modem cable and get some logs ... Aros is indeed an interesting project :).
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