Re: [Plex86-devel] To any Win98 Testers

[Christian Boltz]

Hello Francisco, hello *

11. Juni 2002 19:42, Francisco Y wrote:
> I´d like to run Win32 on my Linux machine.

I want to do so, too.

> I Only got to see the install screen after install it with an old
> plex86 source.

Which Version of plex86 do you use?

At my machine I've never seen any graphical screen inside plex86 :-(

I tried installing Win98 - it failed.

Scandisk run successfully. After that, Win98's last words are:
    Die Installation wird vorbereitet...
    Systemregistrierung wird überprüft.
translated:
    preparing installation...
    checking the system registry.

Plex86 crashes (exits suddenly) after Win98 has printed these two lines.


This are the last lines plex86 reported to console:
[...]
bochs: vga: io write 3c0: address mode reg=16
bochs: vga: io write: 3cf: reg 05: value = 10h
bochs: vga: io write 3c0: address mode reg=16

::ESC6:

::sysIOIn: No handler defined for port 0x18.

bochs: panic, dma: io write to address 00000000, len=2
Shutting down plugins
bochs: Note: X11: bx_gui_c::exit() not implemented yet.
Unmapping guest physical memory.
Unmapping monitor print buffer.
Tearing down VM
Closing VM


Here's what I did (very simple):
- boot from a Win98 bootdisk image
Inside the Win98/DOS prompt:
- fdisk /mbr
- create a partition with fdisk
- d:
- setup


The config file is the following:
-----------------------------------------------------------
memory = 32

plugin = ./plugins/bochs/plugin-bochs.so

bochs-opt boot: a
bochs-opt diskc: file="../../win98.diskimage", cyl=1024, heads=16,
                                                         spt=63
bochs-opt floppya: 1_44=../../win98_bootdisk, status=inserted
bochs-opt cdromd: dev="/dev/cdrom", status=inserted
bochs-opt keyboard_serial_delay: 200
bochs-opt floppy_command_delay: 500
bochs-opt vga_update_interval: 200000
bochs-opt mouse: enabled=0
bochs-opt private_colormap: enabled=0
bochs-opt i440fxsupport: enabled=0
bochs-opt newharddrivesupport: enabled=1
bochs-opt ips: 1000000
bochs-opt time0: 938581955

plugin = ./plugins/bochs/iodev/cmos.so
plugin = ./plugins/bochs/iodev/dma.so
plugin = ./plugins/bochs/iodev/system.so
plugin = ./plugins/bochs/iodev/vga.so
plugin = ./plugins/bochs/iodev/serial.so
plugin = ./plugins/bochs/iodev/parallel.so
plugin = ./plugins/bochs/iodev/keyboard.so
plugin = ./plugins/bochs/iodev/floppy.so
plugin = ./plugins/bochs/iodev/harddrv.so

CMOSChecksum

load-rom: file=../bios/BIOS-plex86-current, address=0xf0000
load-rom: file=../bios/VGABIOS-elpin-2.40, address=0xc0000

db_syntax = at&t

prescan: depth = 3, ring3 = on
-----------------------------------------------------------

I also couldn't install Windows for Workgroups 3.11 - after setup copied 
some files, plex86 crashed :-(

I use the CVS version of plex86 (2002-05-20)
Is an older version of plex86 more stable?

> As I told you before, second boot never comes.

I'd like to see the _first_ boot screen of Windows98...

> A English native coordinator would be better than me.
> If there are anyone else interested on it, write please. So We could
> use the same source. My Linux Distro is a Red-Hat 7.1.

I use SuSE 7.3 with a vanilla 2.4.18 kernel.


Christian Boltz
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