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Generally, you can just hit enter to accept the defaults.

Now, just double click on the file you just made to run Bochs! Bochs will ask you some questions before starting the emulation. Then put the following lines into the bochs.bat: Now, make a file called bochs.bat in the same directory that your Boch's configuration file is in. Just run it, select Read, specify a file name and where you want it, and click the Read button. RawWrite is pretty much self explanitory. Just save it to the directory that you made earlier and rename the file if necessary.

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Be sure to select All files when you save the image and don't password protect the image or it will be written in the wrong format: Once it is finished you need to save the floppy image. Then, insert your floppy into the first floppy drive and select Disk -> Read Disk. Copy 1.44 to the directory where the Bochs configuration file is. This instructs PartCopy to copy the entire floppy and to put the data in a file called 1.44(which you will find in the same directory as PartCopy once you do the above). Just insert your floppy into the first floppy drive and run PartCopy with like this: partcopy -f0 0 168000 1.44 The first is to go get WinImage(sharware, 30-day trial, costs $30(US) for standard or $60(US) for professional). An image is simply every single bit and byte of a disk put into a file. Once that's done, we need to make an image of it. Now it's time to make a floppy disk image! Making a Floppy Disk Imageįirst, start by copying your bootsector and kernel to a real 1.44MB floppy(this tutorial assumes that the floppy is FAT12 formatted). If you have a question about a certain line, check out Bochs' documentation. I'm not going to go over the configuration file in-depth, as the comments explain it fairly well. # disable the mouse unless your OS uses itĮvery line starting with a # is a comment. # we want a floppy drive(called a), the disk image that we are using is called '1.44' Romimage: file=./BIOS-bochs-latest, address=0xf0000 # for in the directory above that the current directory(the one the configuration # note that if before a filename we put './' then the file is looked # if you have less than 64MB of memory in your actuall computer, set this lower(16 is good) # how much memory the emulated machine will have This is a sample configuration file that will work fine for what we are doing: The configuration file is important because it tells Bochs where our floppy disk image is, that we want to boot from it, and where the BIOS rom and VGA rom are. Second, we need to make a configuration file called bochsrc.txt in the directory that we just created.

In my case, I'm going to create a new directory called OS dev inside the Bochs' directory. Okay, let's set up bochs to boot from an OS that is on a floppy disk.įirst, we need a new directory that's inside the Bochs' directory. Setting Up a Bochs Configuration File for a Simple OS Now you need to create a configuration file for Bochs. Then, simply unzip Bochs to the desired directory.

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You can download it either from the Bochs homepage or from our downloads page.

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All that and Bochs is 100% free and opensource! How do I setup Bochs?įirst, you need to get Bochs. It runs on Windows(9x/2k/XP), Linux, BeOS, Mac OSX, Sharp Zaurus and more. It allows you to actually run two or more operating systems at the same time on the same computer.

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Bochs is a very complete x86 PC emulator(with almost complete support for x86-64).