Re: [Freedos-user] Problems installing FreeDos in bochs

[Mark B. <kd...@co...>]

Hi John:

I was wrong about the boot signature check...you
don't need it.

You can use the ODIN installation floppy disk image
odin1440.img. That's what I did to run FreeDOS in BOCHS.
You can download it from http://odin.fdos.org/odin2005/.
I copied the image odin1440.img to the BOCHS directory.
The "SYS" command works from ODIN.

In Bochs, (Enter the values inside the [])

[3]  Edit Options
[8]  Disk Options
[1] Floppy Disk 0
[odin1440.img] Enter new filename...
[1.44M]  What type of floppy disk? (auto=-detect) [none]:
[return]
[0] Return to previous menu
[0] Return to previous menu
[5] Begin simulation

If you don't specify the 1.44M type, you get an error when
starting BOCHS.

HTH,

Mark


John Woolsey wrote:
> I had two problems:
> 
> If I run the normal install it gives me an invalid opcode at 326c 2a35 
> 0406 ...
> If I pop to dos the disk never gets the boot information on it because 
> the freedos cd does not include kernel.sys.
> 
> Any ideas on what is wrong or another route?
> 
> My bochs config file is:
> display_library: win32, options="legacyF12" # use F12 to toggle mouse
> megs: 32
> romimage: file=$BXSHARE/BIOS-bochs-latest, address=0xf0000
> vgaromimage: file=$BXSHARE/VGABIOS-lgpl-latest
> vga: extension=vbe
> #
> floppya: 1_44=freedos-img/a.img, status=inserted
> floppyb: 1_44=a:, status=inserted
> #floppyb: 1_44=freedos-img/b.img, status=inserted
> ata0-master: type=disk, path="c.img", mode=growing, cylinders=40, 
> heads=16, spt=63
> #ata0-master: type=disk, path=freedos-img/c.img, cylinders=306, heads=4, 
> spt=17
> ata0-slave: type=cdrom, path=Y:/z/install/emulation/fdfullcd.iso, 
> status=inserted
> boot: cdrom
> #boot: c
> log: bochsout.txt
> mouse: enabled=0
> ips: 15000000
> vga_update_interval: 150000
> 
> 
> 
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