Stu's Rusty Bucket

Saturday, July 19, 2008

MorphOS 2.0

I booted up the morph os 2.0 demo to see what it was like.

First boot up, I had all the files on an EXT2 partition on my usb stick, OF booted MorphOS but then MorphOS couldnt read it to see the iso image..

Second time I tried to install it, it installed into the same directory on the USB stick as the iso image, ignorning the HD0 line.. The the timer kicked in and slowed it down to a crawl.

Third time, I got it installed onto my HD, I was using the boot SYSTEM HD0 partition as SFS with 1kb block sizes, which I guess the OF didnt like as it wouldnt see anything on the disk and boot it.

Fourth time around I changed the boot HD0 to 512b SFS and now the OF can see it and boot accordingly.

I dont know if its the demo or not but there is no ‘shutdown’ command that I could find. Overall it seems to run fairly well, it taxes the efika a bit, moving the slider in a file selection list will crank the cpu way high temporarily.

What I can run, runs very nicely at 1200x1024x24bit.

Booting the boot.img from USB takes a very very long time.
Booting the boot.img from TFTP takes seconds…

Id like to see how something like finalwriter ran.. if it could run… anyway…