Jeroen Janssen wrote:
>
> Kevin Lawton wrote:
> >
> > Don't switch into protected mode, otherwise you'll hit a panic.
> > No bid deal; I just haven't added this yet.
> >
> > If you hit some code where an instruction needs to be virtualized
> > and it isn't emulated yet, you'll also hit a panic.
>
> Ok, I'm trying to boot from a dos boot flop (image) in order to see how
> the vga bios is used. (- maybe a generic "int" logger plugin would be
> usefull (I will prob. write something like that), that way I'll be able
> to see what kind of int 10h calls are used (ie. by dos) so I can see if
> I can at least create a "bare minimum" VGA Bios..).
>
> The problem at the moment is that I get a panic (hey!). Unfortunately I
> don't know if there is something else wrong that causes the boot process
> to fail or maybe some instruction isn't virt/emulated yet. (As far as I
> can tell it crashes sometime after the VGA BIOS initialises, since I see
> the VGA BIOS (C) in my kernel log file).
There should be some error text above the VGA dump in your system log.
Also, what DOS version are you using. I used a DOS 6.22 plain disk
formatted floppy with system.
-Kevin
