[movitz-devel] Re: building image

[Vikas N Kumar]

Hi Frode,
How does one use just the ia-x86 package ?
Apart from ia-x86-test is there any other function or method to test
or use the package ? If i assume that I have only the ia-x86 package,
how would I use it ?

Regards,
Vikas

On 27 Oct 2006 19:46:30 +0200, Frode Vatvedt Fjeld
<ffjeld at common-lisp.net> wrote:
> "Vikas N Kumar" <vikasnkumar at users.sourceforge.net> writes:
>
> > Hi Frode
> > Thanks. I was able to build the image fine and dump it
> > But now i get this error when i load that image with Bochs.
> > Any ideas on debugging this issue ?
>
> > [..]
> > Booting from Hard Disk...
> > Loading Movitz 2..
>
> Hi Vikas,
>
> The image produced by dump-image includes a 512-byte bootloader that
> is only able to load from floppy. Apparently you are trying to use it
> as a hard-drive image. If you configure Bochs to use the image as
> floppya, it should work. Since this way you can use the output of
> dump-image directly, this is most convenient. It is also possible to
> use GRUB to construct a hard-drive or CDROM-compatible image, etc.
>
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> Frode Vatvedt Fjeld
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