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What is your OSDev HELL NAAW! moment?
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Author:  hannah [ Thu Jan 05, 2017 1:38 am ]
Post subject:  What is your OSDev HELL NAAW! moment?

I'll start. Mine is when I figured out why my BGA driver wasn't setting any pixels... It was page faulting when I accessed the buffer. :|

Author:  Octacone [ Thu Jan 05, 2017 3:47 am ]
Post subject:  Re: What is your OSDev HELL NAAW! moment?

When I realized how poor my memory management was. I wasn't able to do any high resolution GUI because of that.

Author:  dozniak [ Thu Jan 05, 2017 5:34 am ]
Post subject:  Re: What is your OSDev HELL NAAW! moment?

Mine was seeing yet another "What is your xxx moment?" post.

Author:  BrightLight [ Sat Jan 07, 2017 2:28 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: What is your OSDev HELL NAAW! moment?

When I got my OS to boot from SATA using AHCI on QEMU only to find out it doesn't work anywhere else (not in VirtualBox, or even different QEMU builds...) :oops:

Author:  Mikumiku747 [ Sun Jan 08, 2017 1:17 am ]
Post subject:  Re: What is your OSDev HELL NAAW! moment?

I spent about 30 minutes attempting to debug some very simple GDT initialisation before realising I was using lidt instead of lgdt... not my finest moment.

- Mikumiku747

Author:  bauen1 [ Sun Jan 08, 2017 1:18 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: What is your OSDev HELL NAAW! moment?

After wasting over 10 hours debugging gdt and idts just to realize my gdt entries size was 0

Author:  DixiumOS [ Wed Jan 11, 2017 4:25 am ]
Post subject:  Re: What is your OSDev HELL NAAW! moment?

>terminal_writechar doesn't work, but terminal_writestring does

Okay, i'll fix that

>terminal_writechar works, but terminal_writestring doesn't

...

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