ADLO is GO

[Richard Smith]

Adam Sulmicki wrote:

>>I had to enable read and write in the shadow memory.  I don't think you
>>had to but I enabled the full range from 0c0000 to 0ffffff
> 
> FWIW, need for doing this mentioned in the "HACKING" file.

Ah. RTFM then.  Figures the one file I didn't read.

>>It doesn't appear however that my video bios is getting called.  I
>>rememember seeing somewhere that I have to enable that?

   I guess it is differnet for each case. Not sure what's it like in your
> particular case.
> 
> What's is this gfx card?

Asiliant (used to be C&T) 69000.

> overall BOCHS BIOS should find the binary only vga bios in memory and try
> to initalize it.

Should there be any serial debug output?  I don't see any thing that 
relates to video bios init.

> there may be some stuff in linuxbios to enable too. not sure.

Heres what came out the serial port:

  rombios.c,v 1.1 2002/11/25 02:07:53 rminnich Exp $
FATAL: Keyboard RESET error:993
FATAL: Keyboard RESET error:31
FATAL: Keyboard RESET error:994
FATAL: Keyboard RESET error:995
FATAL: Keyboard RESET error:996
Bochs BIOS, 1 cpu, $Revision: 1.1 $ $Date: 2002/11/25 02:07:53 $
[BOCHS BIOS VER:1.79]
[COMPILE DATE:Apr 30 2003 TIME:16:50:43]

DEVICE:0
ata0 master: PCHS=246/2/32 translation=lba LCHS=15/16/63
ata0 master: Hitachi CV 7.1.1 ATA-0 Hard-Disk (7 MBytes)

Booting from Hard Disk...
  rombios.c,v 1.1 2002/11/25 02:07:53 rminnich Exp $
FATAL: Keyboard RESET error:993
FATAL: Keyboard RESET error:31
FATAL: Keyboard RESET error:994
FATAL: Keyboard RESET error:995
FATAL: Keyboard RESET error:996
KBD: int09h_handler(): unknown scancode read!


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Richard A. Smith
rsmith at bitworks.com