Since 2006, the year in which TORO objectives were modified, the TORO OS project corresponding to the version 1.xx was discontinued. These versions achieved a great success in terms of functionality. The most stable version was 1.1.3, sometimes I see the source of those versions and I feel very sorry of have abandoned it, however it was impossible to me to continue with both projects simultaneously. So I decided to make a small tribute to those versions. For that i will show next how to test TORO 1.1.3 through BOCHS. I've put some screenshots for you to observe the beauty of a shell in PASCAL. Enjoy it!
For these simulations is necessary x86 Bochs, remember that the 1.1.3 version is only for 32 bits. Here I include the torobch.bxrc file contents.
megs: 256
romimage: file=BIOS-bochs-latest, address=0xf0000
floppya: 1_44=toro-1.1.3.img, status=inserted
boot: floppy
http://sourceforge.net/projects/toro/files/images/toro-1.1.3/toro-1.1.3.img/download
If everything is allright, the first window you will see when execute BOCHS will be:
Corresponds the GRUB bootloader, there you select TORO-1.1.3 and press enter.
It will start to load the OS and then the Shell:
We are ready to enter commands on TORO. The first command we will see is the ls that, as you already know, lists the actual directory.
Now we go to the directory where finds TORO's source using cd.
And we are going to run echo printk.pas, this will display the file content on screen.
You can see all Shell commands at /BIN directory, these are:
Running reboot the system is closed and we can turn off the virtual machine.
I hope you enjoyed it, make your own experiences running commands. You can also burn the image in a 3 ½ floppy and try it in a real machine.
Attention: Versions 1.x.x have no relation with version 0.xx, they are different things.
Matias E. Vara
www.torokernel.org
2 comments:
Hello, Mattias
I'd like to ask a question. I see now that Toro is no longer a Win64 RTL anymore, but a generic i386 and amd64 one. So, is it possible to use it as an RTL for a custom OS kernel (instead of the demo's monolithic kernel or Win32/64)?
Hi,
from Version 0.01 the kernel is inside an RTL, then when you compile something the kernel is included into the application and you don´t need any OS to run it. Have I asked your question?.
MV.
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