frustration in a bochs
short summary of what didn't work with os x 10.4.3 and the x86 emulator bochs:
and after about 5 hours of testing – when suicide has become a very attractive alternative – finally a magic window appeared in a bright light, surrounded by singing angels, with the words in it:
a precise description of the narrow road to salvation:
- download the latest package from the bochs sourceforge page: the package would not compile. neither version 2.2.1 nor 2.2 can be compiled, not with
.conf.macosnor.conf.macosxnor any other options.
- get the latest build via
cvs. same symptomes, compilation aborts.
- download precompiled version with fink support: crashes without even prompting. download precompiled no-fink version (i have fink installed!!): open and run
dlxlinux/bochs.scpt, prompts for action, but exits ASAP with the message:[MEM0 ] ROM: System BIOS image undefined.
and after about 5 hours of testing – when suicide has become a very attractive alternative – finally a magic window appeared in a bright light, surrounded by singing angels, with the words in it:
VGA BIOS - Version 2.40
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a precise description of the narrow road to salvation:
- download Bochs-2.1.1-macos10.2noFink.dmg and copy the application to your hard disk
- launch the terminal. go to the
dlxlinuxfolder inside theBochs-2.1.1-folder. then launch bochs with the following magic command:
% ../bochs.app/Contents/MacOS/bochs



