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whenever i try to being a simulation with bochs, i get the error

00000000000i[MEMO ] 4.00MB
00000000000i[MEMO ] ROM: couldn't open ROM image file ' '.

ive set up my config file to point at a floppy image file ive created using one of bochs's utilities, and then i partcopied my boot code and kernel code to the image file. i think that maybe i partcopied it wrong, but got now errors from part copy. anyone know wats wrong?

Looks like you didn't give a Bochs a BIOS to use. Try the Bochs-BIOS-latest.

K.J.

what do mena a BIOS? im completley new to bochs. do i have to d/l one? dosnt it come with one? does it come wiht some prog i have to run to creat a bios image or something?

Bochs comes with it's own BIOS. In your configuration file, do this:

romimage: file=BIOS-bochs-latest, address=0xf0000
vgaromimage: VGABIOS-elpin-2.40

That will setup the plain ol' BIOS and the VGA BIOS.

K.J.

now im getting seemingly infinte unknown opcode instructions, well, at least its booting. my code was compiled with NASM. do you think i did somethign wrong with partcopy