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From: carl.sopchak@cegis123.com (Carl Sopchak)
Subject: Re: INT13 function FAh during boot?
Date: 1 May 2002 05:26:48 -0700
References: <200204271534.aa00201@xenitec.xenitec.on.ca> <20020427123740.A15678@mammoth.ca.caldera.com> <c12f3009.0204301135.5db9cbc0@posting.google.com> 

Is everyone sitting down??

The install finally finished (I'm not sure how long it took, as I let
it run overnight)!  I shut down bochs, rebooted from the hard drive,
SCO OSR 5.0.5 booted, and I was able to log in as root!!!  So it looks
like, with the mods I and the rom bios developer (Christophe Bothamy)
made, SCO is an installable guest OS within bochs!  I will post my
mods to the bochs site (in bochs-developers discussion board, and in
my bug entry) within the next day or two.

I'd like to thank Christophe for his quick, responsive help with the
bios.  A VERY big thanks goes out to Bela for providing so much info
on what OSR is trying to do, and for sticking with me.  Thanks guys!!

Now, we're not totally out of the woods yet, though :-(...

First, the clock is racing at about 17 times what it should be (it
went ahead 2:34:34 in 9 minutes)!  This MAY be just a tweek of the
emulated Instructions Per Second parameter, I'll have to check.  This
may also be the reason why I got sooo many disk timeouts during the
install.  However, we tweeked this parameter so that the log file
matched coded waits during the kernel boot, or at least that's what we
thought we were doing.  I've noticed that the log file number is
'clock ticks'.  Is that microseconds, or some multiple(fraction)
thereof??

Also, during the install, I did not configure the mouse or network
card.  I'm still undecided about configuring the mouse, as I don't
have a real good reason to use it (for my specific purposes).  Maybe
that will come later when I feel like "playing"...  I do have a need
for the network card (mainly to get files to the emulated disk), so
that will be next.  I'll report how it goes...  (I believe that there
are other ways to get files onto the emulated hard disk, but the
network would be the easiest [if it works :-)].)

Wish me luck...

Carl
 

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