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Hello Gurus,
I made an image of my hello world OS and named it floppy.img then I copied it to the directory of my c:\Program Files\Bochs-2.0.2. When I run Bochs I got this message "BIOS panic at rombios.c, line 1563.

Here is my Bochsrc.txt
megs: 32
romimage: file=BIOS-bochs-latest, address=0xf0000
vgaromimage: VGABIOS-elpin-2.40
floppya: 1_44=floppy.img, status=inserted
boot: a
log: bochsout.txt
mouse: enabled=0

what am I doing wrong?
Do I need to insert a floppy to drive a:?
Or just the file name floppy.img and copy to Bochs directory?

Please help,
Christy

YOu need to read the documentation of BOCHS, you need to create an Image for your boot image for you OS, and specify it in your bochs script.

Your Bochsrc.txt seems to be right. For create the floppy image you can use the program PARTCOPY:

partcopy your_file.bin 0 200 -f0 0

I hope this help you!

pepito

Sorry, I forget something...

With the steps I said before you can create a bootable floppy disk, the you need to create an image of that disk. Again you can use PARTCOPY:

partcopy -f0 0 168000 floppy.img

Then simulate!

pepito

Are your romimage and vgaromimage files in the same directory, and named correctly?