From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 7 4:59:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83FA437B416 for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 04:59:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA00931; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 07:59:11 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 07:59:11 -0500 From: Michael Lucas To: "Eduardo Viruena Silva" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, clefevre@citeweb.net Subject: Re: bochs does not load HIMEM.SYS Message-ID: <20011107075911.A893@blackhelicopters.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from mrspock@Michelle.esfm.ipn.mx on Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 06:23:20AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, You'll get a better response asking the people who wrote bochs... surely they have a user community? Good luck, ==ml On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 06:23:20AM -0600, Eduardo Viruena Silva wrote: > > Hello! > > I have a computer running FreeBSD 4.4, with 256Mb RAM. > I installed bochs-1.2,1.tgz package. > > I created a image disk and loaded MSDOS 6.22. No problem > with the installation process. > > I get a MS-DOS window and everything start working > but HIMEM.SYS. > > It reports: > > ================= > ERROR: Unable to control A20 line. > XMS Driver not installed. > ================= > > > nevertheless, when I run mem.exe, it reports: > > ================= > Memory Type Total = Used + Free > ---------------- ------- ------- ------- > Conventional 639K 84K 555K > Upper 0K 0K 0K > Reserved 0K 0K 0K > Extended (XMS) 31,744K 31,744K 0K > ---------------- ------- ------- ------- > Total memory 32,383K 31,828K 555K > > Total under 1 MB 639K 84K 555K > > > Largest executable program size 554K (567,776 bytes) > Largest free upper memory block 0K (0 bytes) > ========================== > > as if my extended memory really exists. > > Now, it also happends with Windows 95 and 98 booting discs. > I tried in another computer, it didn't work either [the difference > between them is the X11 version, one of them has the 4.0.2 > version]. > > I also tried compiling the port. > It did not work either, the problem is the same. > > Finally I tried in a linux system and it works fine. > > Another problem: there are problems if I install Turbo C++ 3.0, the > computer --even thought it is not frozen-- does not respond to the > keyboard. And I say it is a keyboard problem because when I make turbo C > compile a program with the /m option [make] or /b option [build], it > compiles and links. > > > > Could you please help me? > > > > > > - ______ _ > * / /###\ / \ __ > /\ /\ * / ./#### \ * \__|_/ | | > / \/ \ | b#####| * _ | __ | | __ > = .. \____ \ \_\#####/ / \| / \ | | /\_\/ > = \_| * \___\###/ * \_/\_/\__/\__\/_/\__/ > = \______/ _ > | | > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message