On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 06:39, Adam Thornton wrote: > It *is* for real. I was running it on Dave Jones's H70, in the h1 > guest, which is running some version of SuSE, with the 2.4.7-timer > kernel. I don't think Bochs is kernel-level-sensitive, though. It > should work OK under 2.2.16. > > The tricky thing is, you can't currently *install* NT under Bochs on > Linux/390. I think this is due to some endianness bug in the ATAPI CD > emulation, because it blows up with an unsupported ATAPI command. So > what I did was (skipping all the false starts): > > Install Bochs on x86. > > Follow the HOWTO to install NT under Bochs. The tricky part here is to > get the boot-floppy right, because booting from the CD gave me nothing > but grief. You have to get a workable generic IDE CD driver, > SMARTDRV.EXE, and MSCDEX.EXE, plus FORMAT and FDISK. I used the "DOS" > in Win98 to create this boot disk, but I see no reason it wouldn't work > with MS-DOS or PC-DOS or (probably) DR-DOS. And you don't really *need* > SMARTDRV.EXE, but I think it's going to make life faster. I don't > really remember whether I used it or not. I'll be happy to supply the > boot floppy image to anyone who wants it, or I can give it to Mark to > put up on his site.
I've got a dos95 boot disk I use for most of my Bochs installation stuff. I would be happy to add it to the collection, if you think it might be useful - it's got fdisk and format, smartdrv, mscdex, oakcdrom.sys (universal [MS | PC | DR] DOS driver), attrib, and suchlike on it, including autoexec.bat and config.sys files. I've also got an msdos-6.22 boot disk, but that one's not nearly as useful - no cdrom driver, etc. Wesley Parish > > Then you use dd to create an iso image of the NT CD. Then use the bochs > diskimage utility (don't remember the name) to create a suitably-sized > hard disk image. I think mine was 504M. > > Set up Bochs with the emulated floppy in drive A, the disk in drive C, > and the NT ISO image in drive D. Boot from floppy. Fdisk and format > the hard disk, reboot, and run the NT installer from the CD. Sit back > and wait a long long time; when you reboot make sure you're booting from > the HD image, not the CD or floppy. I used standard VGA and no mouse > for my install; I don't know if that's necessary or not. > > Once you've done that and set up NT (I set up a network card but did not > ever actually configure the network), shut it down cleanly. > > Now copy the hard disk image over to Linux/390. Build Bochs there. > Tell it the geometry of your disk, and boot from it. That's all it > takes. > > Adam -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
