For developers I think its a great idea to use a "standard" emulator.
Although, I have gotten the impression most JOS people are pretty
loathe to use commercial products in development.
For demos and public releases though, there's nothing more
impressive than a boot disk that will bring a computer up in a new
OS, displaying a beautiful logo.
-iain
On 14 Oct 99, at 13:47, S.K. Wong wrote:
> Personally, If we use Bochs as a testing/development environment,
> It will be much better. Since It is a Intel X86 Emulator which can run
> Win9X already. ( Somethings like VMware ). It can increase the time
> of testing.
>
> Iain Shigeoka wrote:
>
> > From: Robert Fitzsimons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > > As you will see this message was sent about six months ago, and I haven't
> > > really done much work on it since then. The version of grub I worked with
> > > before was quite old, you can find out more information about the newer
> > > versions of grub at <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub.en.html>.
> >
> > Would anyone be able to get a grub version up and running? The
> > netboot requirement does seem pretty limiting for general
> > consumption. Plus, I think it would be great if we could create a
> > bootable raw disk image of the current kernel so people can start
> > "kicking the tires" when we get to that point. Are we at that point
> > yet?
> >
> > -iain
> >
> > > On Wed, 13 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > > Isn't there code kicking about somewhere that lets you boot jjos using GRUB?
> > > > Etherboot's no good to me, as I've only got the one box, so I'd love to have
> > > > whatever's out there - even if it's broken.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > >
> > > > -- George
> > > >
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