I wasn't sure where to post this so...
I just got hold of Bochs because I was thinking about reading into bootloaders, then I realised it *should* be able to boot into my Linux partition while being run from Windows. So I've configured it to (try to) load 'disk' (HDD) but it just refuses to - no reason why. It just "can't". If boots floppies fine, but I have the same problem with CD's.
Anyone have a clue why it doesn't work?
Good class architecture is not like a Swiss Army Knife; it should be more like a well balanced throwing knife.
- Mike McShaffry
AFAIK, you can't use actual hard drive partitions. All HDs must come from image files (which is a pain in the butt, because getting files onto these images isn't easy).
CD drives should work fine though, although Bochs can react badly to you changing the disc without telling it.
So, the way I usually use it is:-
1. Save files onto a Nero CD image
2. Load the image into the Nero ImageDrive virtual drive
3. Run Bochs and copy files to the HD from the "CD".
It's probably much easier in Linux.
Yeah it probably is (what isn't?) but I've got >2GB of music on my Windows partition that I can't be arsed to copy across and if I mount my win partition it doesn't matter because I can never get sound to work properly on Linux. Well, I can, but xmms (or whatever) can never play what I want to play. Yeah it's a whole big codec thing probably, but it's kinda pointless spending hours setting it all up when I've got it all on Windows anyway.
I wanted to run Linux on an emulator so I can use gcc etc while doing other stuff on Windows. I just prefer Linux as a development platform aside from it's varying inconveniences.
Good class architecture is not like a Swiss Army Knife; it should be more like a well balanced throwing knife.
- Mike McShaffry
