The Nexus 7 (2012) was the first tablet I liked a tablet. The small size meant it was similar to a small book and easy to carry (and can fits in men’s jeans front and back pockets). The follow-up Nexus 7 (2013; a.k.a. 2nd gen) was the same but much better hardware (better screen, flash, RAM). To this day I still use the device for e-book reading, but the OS is woefully out-of-date.…
I wanted to use UEFI with ODROID-C2 and while that is possible with U-Boot on MBR, bootctl install doesn’t work and I lose out on systemd-gpt-auto-generator figuring out the partitions for the specific install. Unfortunately, the bootloader on ODROID-C2 is written to sector 1 which conflicts with the GPT header . Some other boards include SPI flash or the SoC supports eMMC boot0. But testing…
I had Journeyman Project Turbo working on Windows XP and Windows 3.1. I wanted to continue the effort with Windows 98 SE. I used QEMU with pc-i440fx, AC97 audio, RTL8139 network, and VGA video. Steps that worked: Install Windows 98 SE from the ISO Configure “Plug and Play BIOS” to use PCI bus driver as documented by SoftGPU When the network device is found, use the RTL8139 floppy image…