Help with Bochs Needed

[Joel Sherrill <joel@OARcorp.com>]

I've been using the grub floppy image in the 4.5.x/contrib directories
and booting from it.  I know it's old but it does work.  You can
replace the .exe's on it with ones from a newer RTEMS.

--joel

Richardson, Anthony wrote:
> I can't seem to get applications running under
> Bochs.  I'm trying to get the hello example running.
> 
> I'm using RTEMS 4.6.2 under cygwin.  I configure
> using the i386-rtems target and the pc386 BSP.
> Everything seems to compile and build without any
> problems.
> 
> I copy the hello.exe to my hard disk image and start
> Bochs.  At the grub prompt I type:
> 
>    root (hd0,0)
>    kernel /hello.exe
> 
> and grub responds
> 
>    [Multiboot-elf, <0x100000:0x18fc4:0x2768>, shtab=0x11c140,
> entry=0x10000c]
> 
> which seems to indicate that grub recognizes it as a proper kernel
> anyway.
> 
> I then type (at the grub prompt):
> 
>    boot
> 
> The bochs screen goes blank, but then nothing is displayed.
> 
> I've tried some of the other examples with similar results.
> 
> Am I doing something incorrectly or am I overlooking something?
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
> 
> Tony Richardson


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