Error with Bochs... "couldn't open ROM file"...

[eddyb]

qemu is so simple, so all the configuration you pass via arguments.
if you use KDE(but I think it works also in GNOME), I recommend you qtemu. just install it from your repo and then run it in a shell. it's a graphical qemu configuration app.

[Spyes]

Uuuughhh qemu isn't working either.....
Maybe I'm not running it correctly though? I tried a few different things like qemu -hda floppy.img and the like... when it does actually 'work' it says 'couldn't boot from cd' or something like that.. any suggestions on how to run qemu?

Thanks guys! Sorry if I'm not getting some basic stuff... I'm still learning

[LMN]

For floppy images you should use qemu -fda floppy.img. Only for harddisk and cdrom image -hda is suitable.

[Spyes]

Hmmm...
so yeah, I did
root@box:~/Kernel# qemu -fda floppy.img
and it didn't return any errors, just this:
warning: could not create temporary file in '/dev/shm'.
Use QEMU_TMPDIR to select a directory in a tmpfs filesystem.
Using '/tmp' as fallback.
Could not open '/dev/kqemu' - QEMU acceleration layer not activated: No such file or directory

And now I have a QEMU window open, it's blank and doesn't do anything....

[Spyes]

K, I got it to actually do something, but now it's stuck at "Boot from Hard Disk 0 failed"
I'm calling qemu -fda floppy.img.... what's wrong?

[Spyes]

OK, an update!
I ran qemu on my Windows machine, and it actually got to the grub command line!
However, when do I do "boot 200+7" it freezes......
Any ideas? Thanks!
(btw, I'm running qemu here just as I would on linux: ./qemu -L . -fda floppy.img)

[goku]

Well i haven't worked on qemu but i do use bochs. this is my bochsrc.txt file

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megs: 32
romimage: file="~/Documents/bochs-2.3.7/bios/BIOS-bochs-legacy", address=0xf0000
vgaromimage: file="/home/mayank/Documents/bochs-2.3.7/bios/VGABIOS-lgpl-latest"

vga: extension=vbe
floppya: image="~/College/KERNEL/floppy.img", status=inserted

boot: floppy
log: bochsout.txt
mouse: enabled=0
ips: 15000000
vga_update_interval: 150000
i440fxsupport: enabled=1

This is all that you may need to get started (..well i never needed more than these..)
The only thing you need to change here is the path in double quotes to match your own. I would recommend to use absolute paths than relative path names.

And while running bochs use

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bochs -f "path to your bochsrc.txt file"

Cheers.