Re: Fun and games with elks-cvs

[Tommy McCabe <rocketjet314@yahoo.com>]

--- Greg Sheard <greg.sheard@ecsc.co.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 15:53, Tommy McCabe wrote:
> > --- Tommy McCabe <rocketjet314@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > --- Greg Sheard <greg.sheard@ecsc.co.uk> wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 22:03, Tommy McCabe
> wrote:
> > > > > --- Tommy McCabe <rocketjet314@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > --- Greg Sheard <greg.sheard@ecsc.co.uk>
> > > wrote:
> > > > > > > Hi folks,
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Having snarfed (and fixed to build) elks
> > > from
> > > > CVS,
> > > > > > > I've discovered that
> > > > > > > bochs doesn't like the elks-images. It
> > > calmly
> > > > > > > informs me that it's not a
> > > > > > > bootable disk, whether I put it on a
> real
> > > live
> > > > > > > floppy or use an image.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Does anyone have any tips or pointers,
> as I
> > > > > > suspect
> > > > > > > I'm missing a step
> > > > > > > on the "make a disk with useful stuff on
> it"
> > > > > > > procedure.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Thanks in advance,
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Greg.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > For me, Bochs says that no matter what
> image I
> > > > use.
> > > > > > Don't ask me why, it just doesn't work.
> Try
> > > > using a
> > > > > real computer.
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks Tommy, but that's not an option; I
> don't
> > > have
> > > > access to a "real"
> > > > computer < 80386, hence wanting to use Bochs.
> > > 
> > > Completely unnecessary. Even the latest AMD64s
> at 3+
> > > GHz boot up in real mode, that is,
> 8086-compatible
> > > mode.
> 
> Sadly, not all of us have access to a machine
> sufficiently under-used to
> boot elks on. Since my coding environment consists
> of a Linux laptop on
> which I build, and an XP box on which I do the many
> things I am required
> to do in Windows, I need an emulator of some nature
> regardless of
> processor type.
> 
> > > > However, I can (for the
> > > > interest and amusement of everyone reading, no
> > > > doubt) confirm that it
> > > > works just fine on MS Virtual PC 2004... so I
> > > better
> > > > go buy floppy disks
> > > > before they get abolished :)
> > > 
> > > Why are you using MS crapware?
> 
> Your kink is not my kink (and obviously vice versa).
> 
> I'm concerned, Tommy, by the impression that you
> would far rather I gave
> up on my interest in this project.

Huh? How do you derive this?

> Surely it matters
> not a jot that I'm
> booting ELKS on Virtual PC? Or is there a deep
> philosophical objection
> to such an activity, of which I'm not aware?

Heh. :-) I was just wondering why you couldn't reboot
the PC you are running on. The main "philosophical
objection" I have to Bochs is that it doesn't work.

> I'm unfortunately quite content to bicker with you
> all day about this,
> but I'd prefer to do something more productive, like
> shooting fish in a
> barrel with a shotgun.

If no one ever bickered they'red be no ELKS, no Linux,
no email, no Internet, no computers, and no
electricity.

> So, does anyone here know how to persuade the "comb"
> disk image to load
> a custom kernel image? It's not documented as far as
> Google could see
> (though my Google results tend to be erratic at
> best).

I think you'd have to rebuild the comb image from
scratch to include your own kernel image.

> Thanks,
> 
> Greg.
> 
> -- 
> "I wish Lucas & Co. would get the thing going a
> little faster. 
> I can't really imagine waiting until 1997 to see all
> nine parts 
> of the Star Wars series." -- Randal L. Schwartz,
> 1983
> 

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