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VMWare ping-pong
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 10:06 am
by 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!
Re: VMWare ping-pong
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 12:10 pm
by 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.)
Re: VMWare ping-pong
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2013 3:53 am
by 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.
