From vikasnkumar at users.sourceforge.net Sun Nov 5 20:13:08 2006 From: vikasnkumar at users.sourceforge.net (Vikas N Kumar) Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 15:13:08 -0500 Subject: [movitz-devel] Re: building image In-Reply-To: <2hfyd98xe1.fsf@vserver.cs.uit.no> References: <792c60620610221616m271d0e76j9fb2c57b2c9cb95f@mail.gmail.com> <2hwt6ra66f.fsf@vserver.cs.uit.no> <792c60620610230628l6d7eb592s6c17350623dc6021@mail.gmail.com> <2hslhf9kuq.fsf@vserver.cs.uit.no> <792c60620610261534xda98edcie054a8b3ec4c7f2a@mail.gmail.com> <792c60620610261542t7c8f3631ycffbda6ae765b577@mail.gmail.com> <2hy7r28cte.fsf@vserver.cs.uit.no> <792c60620610270808j258e2166q2fe8d61ab84246a0@mail.gmail.com> <2hfyd98xe1.fsf@vserver.cs.uit.no> Message-ID: <792c60620611051213o7ad3fb88k64b114d71ff0494c@mail.gmail.com> Hi Frode, How does one use just the ia-x86 package ? Apart from ia-x86-test is there any other function or method to test or use the package ? If i assume that I have only the ia-x86 package, how would I use it ? Regards, Vikas On 27 Oct 2006 19:46:30 +0200, Frode Vatvedt Fjeld wrote: > "Vikas N Kumar" writes: > > > Hi Frode > > Thanks. I was able to build the image fine and dump it > > But now i get this error when i load that image with Bochs. > > Any ideas on debugging this issue ? > > > [..] > > Booting from Hard Disk... > > Loading Movitz 2.. > > Hi Vikas, > > The image produced by dump-image includes a 512-byte bootloader that > is only able to load from floppy. Apparently you are trying to use it > as a hard-drive image. If you configure Bochs to use the image as > floppya, it should work. Since this way you can use the output of > dump-image directly, this is most convenient. It is also possible to > use GRUB to construct a hard-drive or CDROM-compatible image, etc. > > -- > Frode Vatvedt Fjeld > > _______________________________________________ > movitz-devel site list > movitz-devel at common-lisp.net > http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/movitz-devel > -- http://www.vikaskumar.org/ From ffjeld at common-lisp.net Sun Nov 5 21:38:09 2006 From: ffjeld at common-lisp.net (Frode Vatvedt Fjeld) Date: 05 Nov 2006 22:38:09 +0100 Subject: [movitz-devel] Re: building image References: <792c60620610221616m271d0e76j9fb2c57b2c9cb95f@mail.gmail.com> <2hwt6ra66f.fsf@vserver.cs.uit.no> <792c60620610230628l6d7eb592s6c17350623dc6021@mail.gmail.com> <2hslhf9kuq.fsf@vserver.cs.uit.no> <792c60620610261534xda98edcie054a8b3ec4c7f2a@mail.gmail.com> <792c60620610261542t7c8f3631ycffbda6ae765b577@mail.gmail.com> <2hy7r28cte.fsf@vserver.cs.uit.no> <792c60620610270808j258e2166q2fe8d61ab84246a0@mail.gmail.com> <2hfyd98xe1.fsf@vserver.cs.uit.no> <792c60620611051213o7ad3fb88k64b114d71ff0494c@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <2h8xip7ewu.fsf@vserver.cs.uit.no> Hi Vikas, "Vikas N Kumar" writes: > How does one use just the ia-x86 package ? I suppose the primary interface is the read-proglist and proglist-encode functions. Together they will produce machine-code from the sexpr-based assembly syntax. Frode -- Frode Vatvedt Fjeld