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BOCHS: Booting from Partition...
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 5:05 am
by Wacky
Hello everybody!
Now, i've a Fat16 Filesystem in my OS. I compile it successfull on my primary partition d: (yes, i'm using Windows ;D)
My problem is: i can't boot from this partition using BOCHS!! :-\
Has anyone a idea, how i have to modify the bochsrc.txt, so i can boot and test my os??
thx... Wacky
hmm..... sorry for my bad english. I hope you know waht i mean!
Re:BOCHS: Booting from Partition...
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 7:33 am
by Pype.Clicker
what about boot=d: ?
Re:BOCHS: Booting from Partition...
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 7:48 am
by Wacky
No... the result of this: "boot directive with unknown boot device 'd:'. use 'a', 'c' or 'cdrom'." :-\
Re:BOCHS: Booting from Partition...
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 7:52 am
by Pype.Clicker
hmm ... so you might need to make BOCHS use your hard drive using the ata0-master: type=disk path="d:", ... instead, and then use 'boot=c' ...
Re:BOCHS: Booting from Partition...
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 7:56 am
by Wacky
hmm...no.. i've always checked this out! I think it is inpossible to run a OS this way under Windows....
Let's use Linux!! ;D
Re:BOCHS: Booting from Partition...
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 8:38 am
by Tim
Have you put your OS onto your computer's D: drive, or onto a hard disk image which maps to the second drive in Bochs?
If you're using your real hard disk (which I don't recommend -- too risky), and you're using Windows NT, 2000 or XP, it's enough to use "D:" as the disk image path in Bochs. If you're using Windows 95, 98 or Me then you can't do things this way and you will need to create a hard disk image.
Also, try getting the latest version of Bochs. Looking at the error messages, I'd say you're using an old version.