Re: Newbie question about freezing floppy...

First of all, don't use the BIOS that comes with the disk images. Use 
the one that comes with the version of Bochs you use. Second, where did 
those floppy images come from? Are they pre-formatted?	-DG

On Saturday, October 11, 2003, at 02:23  AM, Fredrik Öhrström wrote:

> Thanks, but I am not using FORMAT just a plain DIR A:.
>
> When I try the linux image I get floppy0: seek failed
> so the same problem seems to be present there.....
>
> This is also the case with the CVS snapshot from 20031010.
>
> Can it be that the disk images are too old? I have downloaded
> them from the bochs website. Where they say that some .bochrc
> hacking might be needed. But since bochs does not complain
> I do not know what is wrong.
>
> This is the default .bochrc file:
>
> romimage: file=BIOS-bochs-990925a, address=0xf0000
> megs: 32
> vgaromimage: VGABIOS-elpin-2.20
> floppya: 1_44=a.img, status=inserted
> floppyb: 1_44=b.img, status=inserted
> #diskc: file=c.img, cyl=121, heads=4, spt=17
> diskc: file=c.img, cyl=306, heads=4, spt=17
> #diskc: file=c.img, cyl=900, heads=15, spt=17
> boot: c
> log: out.bochs
> mouse: enabled=0
> ips: 15000000
>
> Anyone got any clues?
>
> //Fredrik
>
> On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 01:23, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:
> > If you try to use the FORMAT command, that's a known issue. Otherwise,
> > /dev/fd0 should work. BTW, the latest is 2.1pre1, not 2.0.2, and many
> > bugs were fixed.                -DG
> >
> > On Friday, October 10, 2003, at 11:06  AM, Fredrik Öhrström wrote:
> >
> > > I have downloaded, compiled and installed the latest bochs 2.0.2. It
> > > starts up freedos ok but when I try to access the floppy disks, 
> > > either
> > > as images or as /dev/fd0 the simulated system
> > > freezes after printing  "Volume in drive A"
> > >
> > > I am using Redhat 9 on a normal pentium.
> > >
> > > Is this i known problem?
> > >
> > > Thanks for any answer!
> > > //Fredrik
> > >
> > >
> > >
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