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Re:Bochs

Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 4:05 am
by chrisa128
Thanks for your help, I will install Win2k tonight...

Re:Bochs

Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 10:15 am
by beyondsociety
Bochs can only directly read the floppy from Win2k/XP or *nix. Win9x* K.J. won't work.
What? :o

I am using Windows ME as my test machine and Bochs works fine. I am though using Bochs-2.0.1.

Are you sure there isn't a problem with your code?

Re:Bochs

Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 11:40 am
by Whatever5k
Are you sure there isn't a problem with your code?
It is *definetely* no code problem! Perhaps, a newer version of Bochs will help...

Re:Bochs

Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 4:02 pm
by chrisa128
Ok, I got a later version of BOCHS and it seems to work but now I get

[BIOS ] BIOS panic at rombios.c, line 1563

while it run fine on my Win2K install

Re:Bochs

Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 11:58 pm
by K.J.
I am using Windows ME as my test machine and Bochs works fine. I am though using Bochs-2.0.1.
I didn't say Bochs won't work, I just said Bochs can't read the actual physical floppy in M-E/9x.

K.J.

Re:Bochs

Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 2:59 am
by Whatever5k
[BIOS ] BIOS panic at rombios.c, line 1563
Do you have the path to the *latest* BIOS-Bochs version in your bochsrc config file?

Re:Bochs

Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 4:23 pm
by chrisa128
Ok, it works if I make a image but I still cannot boot from floppy...

Yes I have got the latest BIOS and VGABIOS set up.

Re:Bochs

Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 4:29 pm
by K.J.
Ok, it works if I make a image but I still cannot boot from floppy...
And Bochs is running on??? Win2k?

K.J.

Re:Bochs

Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2003 3:41 pm
by chrisa128
On my Win2k install it lets me run a image but won't let me boot from floppy giving me the BIOS error...

Re:Bochs

Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2003 2:36 pm
by distantvoices
chrisa128, I boot my kernelthing from floppy using bochs 2.0.2 upon a w2k-machine/sp2.

Here is an excerpt of my bochsrc.bxrc-settings. May be it is of help for you:

[tt]megs: 32

# filename of ROM images
romimage: file=$BXSHARE/BIOS-bochs-latest, address=0xf0000
vgaromimage: $BXSHARE/VGABIOS-elpin-2.40

# what disk images will be used
floppya: 1_44=a:, status=inserted

# choose the boot disk.
boot: a
[/tt]


stay safe

Re:Bochs

Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2003 2:41 pm
by distantvoices
abless wrote:
floppya: 1_44=1.44, status=inserted
abless:

In windows: floppya: 1_44=a, status=inserted

in unix: floppya: 1_44=/dev/fd0, status=inserted

at this line, you also can indicate an image.

Re:Bochs

Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2003 6:10 pm
by Tim
beyond infinity wrote:In windows: floppya: 1_44=a, status=inserted
Surely [tt]a:[/tt] instead of [tt]a[/tt]? [tt]a[/tt] is a file, [tt]a:[/tt] is a device.

Re:Bochs

Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2003 7:40 am
by chrisa128
Ok, it works now.

Thanks for your help!!!

Re:Bochs

Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2003 1:51 pm
by distantvoices
Tim Robinson wrote:
beyond infinity wrote:In windows: floppya: 1_44=a, status=inserted
Surely [tt]a:[/tt] instead of [tt]a[/tt]? [tt]a[/tt] is a file, [tt]a:[/tt] is a device.

you 're right,it should be a: instead of a.