On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 12:27:46PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > Bochs (the x86 emulator) can be quite helpful for bootdisk testing, saving > from lots of reboots. It's relatively fast and supports "el Torito" for > booting from CD (or ISO image, no need to burn) > > Also there have been some major reworks to make configuration easier, so > while you are at testing bootdisks you can test bochs and ensure that > it'll be working well for Woody. :)
It also doesn't test booting on real hardware, which is the most important test for this particular change I think. For boot-floppies, I should think that user-mode-linux would be as useful as bochs, and much, much faster. I talked a bit about testing boot-floppies with UML here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2001/debian-boot-200112/msg00583.html And I know that others have had success with it as well. As far as testing bochs, that's beneficial as well. I've only managed to get it to boot MS-DOS on my PowerPC machine, but that is an accomplishment in itself. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
