Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 13:43:44 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: j_mini@efn.org Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, roberte@mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de, joed@telecom.ksu.edu, freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bochs (386 emulation) Message-ID: <199612120313.NAA01525@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961210195613.11357E-100000@momentum.nike.efn.org> from Jonathan Mini at "Dec 10, 96 08:04:24 pm"
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Jonathan Mini stands accused of saying: > On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, Michael Smith wrote: > > > > > > Then I started with `bochs -bootA' > > > I had to press return since DOS6.22 waits after the `Starting MS-DOS' message. > > > > FWIW, this is DOS checking the keyboard controller. I think it sends > > a 'reset' command and expects a response of some sort; it's been a while > > since I looked at that for doscmd. ... > There isn't any other keyboard access being done by the MSDOS boot > code. This access isn't even in the boot sector itself, this is in the > "final prep" stage, which is started after IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS are > loaded and initialized. This code is replaced by the permanent section of > COMMAND.COM (or whatever shell is listed in the SHELL= directive in > CONFIG.SYS) Actually, I did the right thing and checked my notes. The keyboard access is the 'keyb' driver, which is loaded as part of the startup on the DOS 6.x boot disk. My standard rememdy is to remove this before using the image. > Jonathan Mini (mini@momentum.nike.efn.org) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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