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things about bochs

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 12:00 am
by bobesponja
hi, i'm making a real mode operating system that boots from a floppy,
and i'm tired of copying it to the floppy and reboot, my question is:

can i use bochs with a 16 bits real mode operating system?
how i make a floppy image? ( i have readed the help of bochs and i can't make it work )

that is all

thanks you for the answers....

Re: things about bochs

Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 12:00 am
by ManOfSteel
can i use bochs with a 16 bits real mode operating system?
Yes.
how i make a floppy image?
If you're using your bootsector code to load just a few sectors, you can assemble/compile your bootloader and your kernel, and join the two (or more) files together with a simple 'copy /b file1+file2 end_file' MS-DOS command. This will make a valid image that you can use under Bochs

Re: things about bochs

Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 12:00 am
by neil
bximage installed with bochs can creates disks and floppies images