VMWare ping-pong

[BlackIce]

Hi guys, I'm new to the OS development. I'm playing with my boot sector and using the following assembler instruction (jmp $) to hung the execution at some point. The problem is that VMWare displays ping-pong and I don't know how to get rid from it. I want to see my debug messages instead!

[MDenham]

First result from googling "vmware pong".

The last post on page 1 mentions that attempting to read beyond the end of a floppy disk will give you data that matches a bootable floppy with Pong on it.

(Also, hitting every modifier (Ctrl-Alt-Windows-Shift or Command-Control-Option-Shift) + V will bring it up/cancel it as well.)

[BlackIce]

Thanks! I found a mistake and solved the problem. I did error in assembler syntax and my boot sector was not compiled at all.