Welcome ! It seems you are intrested in my Melon OS...

DISCLAIMER :

This software is HIGHLY UNTESTED, and will probably have UNEXPECTED EFFECTS on any hardware you run it on. I will not be held responsible for any damage caused by this software.

HOW TO BUILD MELON :

This is supposed to work in a Linux environment. Maybee it could work on *BSD, or Cygwin, but that hasn't been tested.

You need :

• Git for cloning the repository
• GCC
• Nasm
• Qemu or Bochs for testing (Qemu works better, debugging is planned for bochs)

If you haven't yet downloaded the source code, then clone the GIT repository : $ git clone git://github.com/Alexis211/Melon.git

Then, rebuild everything : $ make mrproper $ make

And run it with Qemu : $ make qemu OR $ make qemu-hdd You will probably be prompted for your password. We need it to mount the floppy/HDD image as a loopback device to update its contents. The second option boots from the HDD instead of the floppy.

HOW TO CONFIGURE THE GRUB ENTRIES :

If you want to change the entries that appear when you make qemu, then edit the Grub-menu-fdd.cfg or Grub-menu-hdd.cfg, then re-run make qemu or make qemu-hdd.

The options for the kernel command line are the following :

• vesa:[disabled|enabled] enables or disables the VESA driver (hangs on Bochs when enabled)
• keymap:[builtin|...] selects a keymap. keymaps are in Source/Kernel/Ressources/Keymaps built-in keymap is defined in Source/Kernel/DeviceManager/Kbd.ns.cpp
• init: select the init application to run. empty string = go to kernel shell. default is /System/Applications/PaperWork.app

You also can edit those entries when booting by pressing 'e'. That will launch GRUB's editor.