Eliyahu's Ramblings

Disclaimer: The following post has been written vaguely in the midst of a spiral.

I was in the middle of writing yet another job application (#internship-grind) when one of friends messaged me telling I should just use an LLM to write it for me.

With exams looming in a couple months and precisely zero revision done, now is clearly the perfect time to go down the rabbithole of clearing up the mess that is my current homelab configuration.

Source code (and maybe prebuilt ISOs?)

For anyone who just wants the solution without the story, skip to [here](#What if the firmware just had drivers?).

For the past few years, I’ve been using Senheiser HD 202s as my headphones (I found them lying unused in a cupboard - yay free stuff).

It’s been a while since I’ve written a post in this series, but not to worry, because stuff has been happening.

In the last post I managed to get unwinding working within the kernel, but there was the small issue that it would only print out addresses, and each one would need to be converted with a tool like addr2line to get any useful debugging information out.

Apparently it’s been nearly two months since the previous post.

With filesystem access in place, we can start working on loading images from the disk, and putting together a basic UI.

At the end of the last post, I said that I’d probably start working on filesystems and image rendering.

For some reason, I decided that for this attempt, it would be fun trying to write a bootloader myself rather then relying on GRUB.

Having been demotivated from continuing with Popcorn attempt 1 with all the strange, hard to track down memory bugs, I decided to start again (and write this series of blog posts alongside) but in Rust.