bochs from diskette

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Adrian

bochs from diskette

Post by Adrian »

How to make bochs boot from a:? It tries to read from it, but then quickly aborts "cannot read from boot disk".

Or can I make an image and load from the image?

Adrian
whyme_t

Re:bochs from diskette

Post by whyme_t »

For windows

Follow the tutorial here http://osdev.neopages.net/tutorials/bochs/bochs.php

Just put this in your bochsrc.txt to boot from the a drive.

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floppya: 1_44=a:
boot: a
You can make an image with rawrite, this is a link to a windows version, http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwrite.htm

Just put this in your bochsrc.txt to boot from an image named disk.bin.

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#floppya: 1_44=disk.bin, status=inserted
boot: a
Unless I've misunderstood you?
Adrian

Re:bochs from diskette

Post by Adrian »

Thanx, now it works.

Adrian
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