[openbeos] Re: booting bochs cd-image [OT]
- From: "Manuel Jesus Petit de Gabriel" <freston@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 20:51:19 -0700
Why don't you make the bochs' floppy drive point to the boot floppy image?
manuel,
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred K Ollinger" <follinge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2002 7:07 PM
Subject: [openbeos] booting bochs cd-image [OT]
> Busted floppy drive prevents me from booting newos in test computer (other
> machine is a server). Is there a way to get the cdrom to boot under bochs
> before I burn a real cdrom?
>
> I have a cdrw drive which will boot cdrw's, but I can't even boot a known
> working cdrom for openBSD.
>
> Here's the line in my .bochsrc (debian linux):
>
> cdromd: dev=/dev/cdrom, status=inserted
>
> fstab:
>
> /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660
defaults,ro,user,noauto00
>
> ls -al /dev/cdrom:
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Dec 13 2001 /dev/cdrom ->
/dev/sr0
>
> Anyone have any ideas why test cd does not work? I made disk image all
> ready and I'd like to test this disk image under emulation, either as a
> working cd-rw or a disk image: obos.iso, either under bochs. Any ideas?
>
> Fred Ollinger (follinge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
> CCN sysadmin
>
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