Re: Newbie question about freezing floppy...

Thank you! I replaced the BIOS and the VGA with the ones
that come with bochs and then it worked.


//Fredrik

On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 11:46, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:
> 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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