Virtualise everything

[unplygOS]

On my laptop, I'm running openSUSE 11. And because my floppy drive doesn't work I was thinking of testing and debugging my OS using virtualbox. It works really well with oses such as haiku (http://www.haiku-os.org). But I can't even get a "virtual" grub booting floppy to work . I've followed the tutorial on Loopback_Device and that didn't work, I also followed that tutorial and in /mnt/myfloppy and ran
# dd if=stage1 of=/dev/loop0 bs=512 count=1
# dd if=stage2 of=/dev/loop0 bs=512 seek=1
but all i got when i "virtualised" it is i got "GRUB" printed on the screen for as long as I kept the virtual machine running.

Can someone help me create a virtual floppy.
A virtual machine is the only type of machine my OS is ever going to see.

Thanks in advanced

[DeletedAccount]

Hi,
havent seen a nix box in ages ........

however try appending conv = notrunc to the dd commands

Regards
Shrek

[Combuster]

Or grab a precompiled GRUB floppy image.

[quok]

Personally, I find it much easier to just create a bootable ISO image than to mess with making bootable floppies. WIth bootable ISO images you don't have to worry about mounting a loopback device or esoteric options to the dd command. Making a bootable ISO image is rather easy even on the command line, and every GUI application I've ever used (such as Nero or whatever) supports it as well.

There's even a tutorial on the wiki that describes just how to do this. See Bootable_El-Torito_CD_with_GRUB_Legacy.

[unplygOS]

Thanks for the tip, I'm going to start right away.

Hope it works.

Oh and do you like the name of my new OS. It's simplicity in welsh.

Thanks quok

[System123]

If possible use Bochs. Its easy to configure. You can also make use of an ISO which boots easier.

[Combuster]

Oh and do you like the name of my new OS. It's simplicity in welsh.

It reads like unplugOS (unplugged as in guitar play, or terminology from the Matrix) Whether that's a good association or not is debatable.