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From: carl.sopchak@cegis123.com (Carl Sopchak)
Subject: Re: INT13 function FAh during boot?
Date: 7 May 2002 09:48:07 -0700
References: <200204271534.aa00201@xenitec.xenitec.on.ca> <20020427123740.A15678@mammoth.ca.caldera.com> 

Just thought I'd give a quick update on my progress:

I decided to use a larger hard disk image (2Gb), so I re-installed the
OS, applied release supplements, brought over users and files from my
old box, etc.  It all went smoothly, except if you try to boot bochs
from the install CD with the bochs ne2000 emulator active it will
crash.  This can be turned on/off via the bochs configuration file
(.bochsrc).  So, you have to install the OS, THEN configure
networking.  I also found that bochs panics intermittently in the
ne2000 emulation during ftp file transfers.  This was not consistent,
though, and seemed to "go away" when I lowered the emulated
Instructions Per Second (ips: in .bochsrc).  If I have nothing better
to do some day (or if this becomes an issue for me), I may try to
figure out why it's panicking.  (Don't hold your breath :-). )

The issues that I still need to resolve are:

- The clock does not advance consistently.  This is a bochs problem,
and from what I can tell is being worked on.  I guess I'm just going
to wait for the fix to come through (even though this may take some
time).  For the time being, I'm just starting the clock at midnight,
so at least the dates are correct (or close)...

- bochs emulates a parallel port, but sends the data to a file.  I
need to get this to go to the print spooler.  My plan of attack here
is to have that output file be a named pipe, then have a process in
the background read the pipe, split it into separate files (based on a
delay of data being sent to it), and sending these new files to the
spooler.  Shouldn't be a huge deal.  I just need to get to it.

- Pressing F1, F2, ... is switching which multiscreen is active within
OSR5.  The application that I need OSR5 for uses (unshifted) function
keys extensively for commanding it what to do next.  I therefore need
to change what keys are used for the multiscreen switch.  I think I
saw that documented somewhere, back in '96 or so :-).

- The bochs emulated display is small on my screen.  I have a 21"
monitor set at 1600x1200[-ish] resolution, so the screen is about
4"x6".  I'd like to see it about twice that size, so my poor, old,
tired eyes get a break.

Other than these issues, it seems to be working pretty good. 
(However, I can't say I've put it "through it's paces", by any
streatch of the imagination!)  The emulation speed is pretty slow, but
on my 1.7GHz P4, it's bearable.

Once again, thanks to all for the help.  I'll report back once I get
the above issues solved...

Carl
 

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