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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, t.maiden AT att.net wrote:

> I decided to see if I could run the two-floppy version of BL in qemu.  I 
> setup the BAT file to see the disk1.img as the -fda floppy image, the 
> disk2 dataset as the -hda hard disk image.  I can't seem to get around 
> the function that asks me to swap floppy disk one and floppy two.  I 
> then took the -hda param off and tried exiting to the qemu monitor and 
> using the change fda command but that didn't work either.  Is there a 
> way to do this?

The easiest way to boot BL floppy in qemu will be to just use the real 
floppy drive and not an image file set as -fda.  If qemu won't do this on 
its own, then specify -fda /dev/fd0 when you start qemu.  The BL3 floppies 
are hard-coded to look for the second diskette at /dev/fd0 (or is it just 
/dev/fdx, Steven?).  A hybrid approach would be to do what you've done 
specifying -fda DISK1.img, then putting DISK2.gz onto a floppy and 
sticking that in your floppy drive.  Once BL is already partway booted, 
it's going to go the the floppy drive itself.  In theory the two files 
could be joined somehow--like the BL2 image was.  But I'm unsure how to do 
that.

James