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  • From: t.maiden AT att.net
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] BL 3.40 in qemu image
  • Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 02:42:39 +0000

>>> 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.

This hybrid approach didn't work, sorry.
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: 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
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