Hi again!
The next computer I think worked fine, but on the screen at [shiftF3] it was repeatedly (non-stop) displaying the line:
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5. Entering [mk-suspend::suspend]
suspending self
And at the bottom of the screen:
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)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27)(28)(29)(30)(31)(32
I'm not sure what I did to trigger this, and after pressing more keys it finally disappeared. Not sure if it's normal or not...
The second time I booted on this computer I hit enter when cowtest was selected [shiftF4][controlF5] and it displayed "loading cowtest" at the bottom of the screen permanently. I've tested this more under Bochs and it seems to always happen if cowtest is the first thing you try on this screen (if you try something else first, then cowtest will work as it should). Anyway, the second time I booted on this computer I couldn't get the repeating "suspending self" messages to happen.
The computer was:
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WORK MACHINE
Pentium IV 1.66 Ghz
256 Mb RAM
40 Gb hard drive
8 Gb hard drive
NVIDEA RIVA TNT2 Model64 Pro video card
NETGEAR FA311/FA312 PCI Ethernet card
On the next computer it did work mostly fine, although I only booted once:
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COMPUTER P
Dual Pentium III 1 GHz
512 Mb RAM
Adaptec AIC-7899 dual-channel SCSI on motherboard
2 * 9 Gb Quantum ATLAS SCSI hard-drives
IDE CD-ROM (50x generic)
Ethernet on motherboard plus PCI 2 ethernet cards
There are a few problems that occur on everything that boots. Pressing enter when spaceDTOR or virtualCopyTable is selected [shiftF4][controlF6] gives a "error 11 :" down the bottom. The floppy disk drive motor is never turned off. Also the keyboard driver seems a little funny - on the screen at [shiftF4][controlF5] I've been hitting enter on everything in the left hand list. I hit enter, down cursor, enter, down cursor, etc and half the time down cursor moves twice. Then there's the Info shower console screens, where all of them except [controlF3] don't clear the top lines - you can check this by pressing [shiftF4][controlF8][controlF1][controlF8][controlF2], etc.
Then there's various spelling and/or text positioning errors. E.g. "Info shower console -use CTRL+Fx to switch between infos pannels a l0t of Fun --" where the end part ("a l0t of Fun --") looks like it should've been cleared, or the screen at [shiftF4][controlF2] where "root@003E6248" is messing up the borders on the left, or the screen at [shiftF4][controlF1] where the right hand list seems an item too long. Sorry if I sound too much like a critic
Ok, the last problem I've found is with KVM switches (Keyboard, Video, Mouse). The KVM's allow me to connect multiple computers to the same Keyboard, Monitor and Mouse, and select the computer via an old fashioned switch or by pressing a magic key sequence. I'm actually using 3 of these things. Your OS works fine on the older (manual switch) versions, but on the newer electronic (magic key sequence) KVM's your OS stops accepting keypresses when I switch back to it. I have no idea why (the same KVM's work fine under DOS, windows, linux and my OS).
That's all I could find for now ;D
Cheers,
Brendan