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TinkerOS 5.16
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@tinkeros tinkeros released this 28 Jul 22:50
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5.16
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General:

The main focus of this release is to improve the ability to do baremetal installs on real hardware. This release contains two critical fixes which allows it to live boot from USB to a ram disk on more machines and also AHCI mode fixes to allow installation on more machines. It contains fixes for bugs found and installer improvements to help make the baremetal install process go more smoothly.

Adam:

  • Fixed letterbox mode graphics issue.
  • Added functions Do640x480, Do800x600 to compile quick fail safe resolutions.
  • Prep Comm port functions to support both IO port and MMIO serial ports.
  • Default to fast graphics if running baremetal.
  • LPTRep fixes.
  • Add SysSurvey question to identify custom PC builds for future motherboards supported section.
  • Removed more unique SysRep information for SysSurvey results.
  • Added function GetBootDrvPortInfo to output IO ports to SysSurvey for boot drive for IDE mode installs.

Demo:

  • Updated OPL code, verified OPL3LPT works with real parallel port setup.
  • Removed message when VirtualBox not detected.

Doc:

  • Added successful baremetal installs page with 12 (a nice biblical number) successful TinkerOS baremetal installs. Also includes 2 desktops and 2 laptops that work with TempleOS as well!
  • Added baremetal install guide for those who want to be adventurous!

Installer

  • Installer help text improvements.
  • Added option to try to auto mount pre-partitioned drives.
  • Extended probing for drives if needed when in IDE mode.

Kernel:

  • Fixed AHCI issues with some machines.
  • Added MixedIn/OutU8 like In/OutU8, but can do MMIO too.
  • Extended MountAuto and MountIDEAuto to be able to do more probing for drives.
  • PCIE cleanup, still WIP.

Once

  • Added additional help text if boot went to text mode.

General

This release contains two critical fixes which allows it to live boot from USB on more machines and also to install in AHCI mode on more machines.

USB Live boot image

  • Modified USB early kernel to help prevent memory getting allocated which can corrupt initramfs and prevent USB boot to ram disk.
  • Added boot option to save just the Survey.DD files found on partitions (to quickly copy just the results from SysSurvey to the USB thumb drive).
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