Subject: Re: PC emulation.
To: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
From: Richard Rauch <rkr@olib.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/06/2004 20:00:38
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 05:31:26PM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Richard Rauch wrote:
> 
> >  * bochs from pkgsrc.  I've started to play with it, but am running into
> >    problems getting it to read a CD (real or image file).
> 
> I haven't used it for commercial operating systems, but lately started
> testing it out.
> 
> I have been using:
> 
> bochs -q 'boot:cdrom' \
>  'ata0-master: type=cdrom, path=/path/to/iso, status=inserted'

The CD I have is not bootable.  I guess I could grab a NetBSD boot
CD...  Otherwise that's not very different from what I have, but I
also have a couple of floppy images and a working hard disk image.
And I put all of this in ~/.bochsrc instead of on the command line.


I'll try with a real CD and see if I can get it to boot.  If that
fails, maybe I should give up on the elpin (elfin?) bootrom and
try one of the others that bochs installs?


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