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aliceinchains
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bios rom bochs
I downloaded a tool from my bios manufacturer and it output an image of the bios but its too large to run in bochs so is there any way to slim it down reliably or if thats not really viable how would i search it for like features and or addresses. thanks
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Re: bios rom bochs
I doubt that you will be able to use the bios from your PC inside BOCHS. But feel free to try.
Your bios was made specifically for your machine, and probably won't work well in ANY other PC.
For BOCHS, you can probably find and download some bios images that will work. Or you can write your own...
Your bios was made specifically for your machine, and probably won't work well in ANY other PC.
For BOCHS, you can probably find and download some bios images that will work. Or you can write your own...
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Re: bios rom bochs
BIOSes are hardware-specific, and most of it is chipset-specific. Bochs' chipset used to be pretending to be a Pentium-2 era chipset (an i440FX), and probably only a marginal bit of it.
The vast majority of BIOSes you'll get your hands on will be usesless for many reasons - one of the more obvious ones is that they will try and look for installed RAM, find none because the chipset doesn't match, and then sit there trying to beep and not do anything meaningful. Stripping the BIOS doesn't simply fix actual "functionality" like that.
tl;dr: Bochs comes bundled with it's own firmware. Use it.
The vast majority of BIOSes you'll get your hands on will be usesless for many reasons - one of the more obvious ones is that they will try and look for installed RAM, find none because the chipset doesn't match, and then sit there trying to beep and not do anything meaningful. Stripping the BIOS doesn't simply fix actual "functionality" like that.
tl;dr: Bochs comes bundled with it's own firmware. Use it.