bxtstart

Langue: en

Version: 110639 (mandriva - 01/05/08)

Section: 1 (Commandes utilisateur)

NAME

bxtstart - start the Bochs-emulator

SYNOPSIS

bxtstart [ options ]

DESCRIPTION

bxtstart is a commandline wrapper to the Bochs-emulator. With bxtstart, you can pass arguments in a Unix-friendly way to the emulator. Also, image-size and geometry for floppies and hd-images are detected automatically.

OPTIONS

-V
Show the version-number of the Bochs-Tools
-h
Show options and parameters
-q
Don't output informative messages (default)
-v
Output informative messages
-s
Simulate commands, but don't execute them
-C cylinders
Number of cylinders. Default: autodetected
-H heads
Number of heads. Default: autodetected
-S spt
Number of sectors-per-track. Default: autodetected
-b floppy | disk | cdrom
Boot from floppy (default), first disk or cdrom
-t translation-mode
Translation-mode of disk (e.g. LBA). Format: 1=mode[,2=mode]. Defaults to 1=auto,2=auto. See the bochs-documentation for valid modes.
-f filename
Path to floppy-image (default: /dev/fd0)
-1 filename
Path to hda-image (ata0-master, default: don't override bochsrc)
-2 filename
Path to hdb-image (ata0-slave, default: don't override bochsrc)
-c filename
Path to cdrom-image (ata1-master, default: /dev/cdrom)

Example

To start the Bochs-emulator with the single-disk Linux distribution HAL91 from the floppy-image hal91.img use the command:
  # bxtstart -f hal91.img

To start the Bochs-emulator with the woody installation cd, copied as iso-image woody.iso to your hd and a bochs-image hda.img, use the command:
  # bxtstart -b cdrom -c woody.iso -1 hda.img

LICENSE

This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation.

AVAILABILITY

The latest version of this program can be found at:         http://www.bablokb.de/bochs-tools/

SEE ALSO

bxt-synopsis(1), bochs(1), bochsrc(5)

AUTHOR

Bochs-Tools were written and are maintained by Bernhard Bablok (mail@bablokb.de)

BUGS

Bochs 2.0 and 2.0.1 had a bug which prevented the definition of ata-devices from the commandline. To use bxtstart with these versions, remove the definitions of ata0-{master,slave} and ata1-master from your bochsrc-file.

Please report all bugs to the author. Provide a detailed description of the bug, the version of the program you are running and the operating system you are using.