Sunday, August 11, 2013

Bochs notes

Installation on Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install bochs
sudo apt-get install bochs-x
sudo apt-get install bochs-sdl
sudo apt-get install bochs-term

BIOS ROM image is installed by package bochsbios to.
  -  /usr/share/bochs/BIOS-qemu-latest
  -  /usr/share/bochs/BIOS-bochs-legacy
  -  /usr/share/bochs/BIOS-bochs-latest

By default, /etc/bochs-init/bochsrc is NOT loaded.

To change display library to SDL: display_library: sdl

Make floppy image: dd if=Boot1.bin of=floppy-drive/floppy.img

If you use term, to quit simulation, run command "kill -HUP <process_id>" in a separate console