[syslinux] bochs, freedos and syslinux
ganapathy murali krishnan
gmurali at cs.uchicago.edu
Fri Apr 22 11:52:28 PDT 2005
I am trying to install syslinux inside bochs and I am having weird
issues. Here is what I did
01) Install bochs
02) Download fdos (10MB hard disk image)
03) bochs now boots into freedos without any issues
04) use bximage (part of bochs) to create a floppy.img
05) boot into freedos (via bochs) and format A:
06) quit bochs
07) run make on syslinux sources
08) configure mtools to interpret floppy.img as A:
09) copy syslinux.com and ldlinux.sys to floppy.img (using mtools)
10) boot into freedos (via bochs)
11) At this point I see syslinux.com as well as ldlinux.sys in A:
12) I make a backup of ldlinux.sys to backup.sys (copy command in FreeDOS)
12) Now I execute "syslinux a:" and get a usage message "syslinux
[-sfma] drive: [bootsectfile]"
even though my syntax seems to be correct
13) I now try "syslinux -s a:" and get an error message "cannot read
ldlinux.sys".
14) If I look at the directory contents, ldlinux.sys is no longer there!
15) When I try to copy backup.sys to ldlinux.sys and I get an error
saying the file exists
16) Now I see that ldlinux.sys has been made hidden (dir /a lists it)
but it has zero size.
I can provide any other information you need. Also, can I install
syslinux on C: directly?
- Murali
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