[Freedos-devel] re: Re: boot sector debugging...

2005-06-09 Thread eric
Hi, to debug the work of a boot sector, you can use dosemu (with a diskimage drive) and dosdebug (for dosemu) or, better, Bochs, and the built-in debugger of Bochs. Versions of Bochs which have the debugger enabled start in "halted in debugger" state, so your next step will be to set a linear addr

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDXMS 0.93

2005-06-09 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Alain wrote: during my tests, I tried FDXMS and FDXXMS 0.93 strawberries I get this message: VDISK has been detected. Driver won be installed. Nothing is installed, it must be some BIOS thing. The machine is a PcChips with SiS742 chip, Semprom 2.2GHz. In the docs I found no option to fo

Re: [Freedos-devel] boot sector debugging...

2005-06-09 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
What I usually do is old fashioned printfs [or in this case calling BIOS print a character or a print # routine based on this, if I need to see values], disabling a chunk of later code if necessary for the code space. However, if you can live with GPL'd code, you may want to use our FreeDOS

Re: [Freedos-devel] UDMA2 testing

2005-06-09 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Alain, > I also tested with a real-world .DBF file creating a complex index and > differences are much smaller then with a big single write/read. > Can someone point me to a good benchmark, so that I can do more testings? depends on what you want to measure. I consider both PRIME95 and Sp

Re: [Freedos-devel] boot sector debugging...

2005-06-09 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Christopher Evans schreef: It seems to lock up at fat chain loader, anyone have idea of debug a boot sector as it runs in realtime? This is a problem, getting a working fat12 loader to load my kernel, cant work on kernel unless got working loader and I run out of space in the file (512 limit).

[Freedos-devel] boot sector debugging...

2005-06-09 Thread Christopher Evans
It seems to lock up at fat chain loader, anyone have idea of debug a boot sector as it runs in realtime? This is a problem, getting a working fat12 loader to load my kernel, cant work on kernel unless got working loader and I run out of space in the file (512 limit). The files in question: htt