[Brett McCoy <bmccoy@bbnplanet.com> writes:]
>I'm having problems getting grub to boot from a floppy (either real floppy
>or an image file). It just prints SJSJSJSJSJSJ and so on forever.
>I'm using the grub files from the 162 vsta distro. I haven't tried the
>latest and greatest grub yet (I'm going to try that tonight).
I had trouble with older GRUB's on my laptop's USB floppy. The newer ones
from project GNU's GRUB work were OK.
>For anyone who doesn't know about vmware, check out www.vmware.com. It's
>not free, but at $99 it's not too far off and is great for working on test
>kernels (ie. Linux 2.3.x series). I thought it would be really nice for
>playing around with vsta.
Although Bochs is free, and you get source code. :->
(But I've seen VMWare demos, and it *is* a much faster emulator.)
Andy
Received on Fri Mar 31 18:01:11 2000
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