dosemu?

[Gilboa Davara]

On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 07:25 -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> --On Sunday, November 20, 2005 11:53 AM +0200 Gilboa Davara 
> <gilboada at netvision.net.il> wrote:
> 
> > Umm... First, I doubt that you'll be able to flash the BIOS from DOSEMU.
> > Being a user mode application, with no kernel support, I can't see how a
> > user-land application can access the BIOS.
> 
> Right. I was hoping I could install the FreeDOS boot files to my USB key 
> from dosemu. I can then boot the key with the vendor-supplied DOS flash 
> utility.

OK.
Didn't think about it.
/me smack self on head.

> 
> > Second, AFAIK DOSEMU doesn't build on x86-64, only on i386/i686.
> > Try passing --target=i686 instead.
> 
> Ok, fortunately I have both i386 an x86_64 boot partitions. I've rebooted 
> to the i386 partition to build it. I've also switched from the 1.2 "stable" 
> tree (deprecated on the devel list) to the 1.3 development tree. I've run 
> into a different build issue and I see someone else has also encountered it 
> on the dosemu-devel mailing list.
> 

Well.
I've been meaning to play around with dosemu once I have some free time.
If it works, I'll let you know.

Gilboa