On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 07:25 -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Sunday, November 20, 2005 11:53 AM +0200 Gilboa Davara > <gilboada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
