From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tommy McCabe Subject: Re: Fun and games with elks-cvs Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 11:48:27 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040528184827.14543.qmail@web51303.mail.yahoo.com> References: <1085756688.21871.67.camel@vaul.dark.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1085756688.21871.67.camel@vaul.dark.lan> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org --- Greg Sheard wrote: > On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 15:53, Tommy McCabe wrote: > > --- Tommy McCabe wrote: > > > > > > --- Greg Sheard wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 22:03, Tommy McCabe > wrote: > > > > > --- Tommy McCabe > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > --- Greg Sheard > > > 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 > > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature name=signature.asc __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/