Tuesday, February 1, 2005

Hiatus is over! Sorry for the long hiatus. I'm back and ready to kick some ass. My first project is to get opendarwin-x86 booting from HFS+ partitions. My other to-do's on the list are all driver projects. Those projects inevitably lead to lots of kernel panics and hard crashes. When testing them under OS X on a PPC box, all is well since the journaled filesystem completes its integrity checks and boots up very quickly. This is not true at all on the x86 systems; they currently boot from UFS. There is a long fsck even on small partitions (I keep them under 3 GB). I have a vague idea how to accomplish this. I posted a note to the opendarwin hackers list and am awaiting a hint or two before jumping in with both feet. 9:35:47 PM    comment []