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Re: AROS, Qemu, and booting on actual hardware after an ISO mod.
« on: December 15, 2007, 02:19:09 PM »
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The end, that's my story, dunno what that 's all about, but it would have been nice to see AROS running on real hardware as opposed to some flakey VM. Any suggestions?

Maybe your disk filesystem got corrupted (unvalidated) when Dopus crashed. Just boot up your virtual machine and press rAros+W, then type 'info' and press Enter into the shell.

Look at what Info is saying about your AROS: partition, if it's labeled as 'validating' instead of 'read/write', well... you can't write anything to it anymore. The worst thing about it, is that there isn't any FFS validation tool already available for AROS, so you have to format it and reinstall a fresher build of AROS (good thing). Don't use Dopus anymore, 'cos it is broken, but use Wanderer instead to copy files. It's safer.

And, well, take the habit of creating a SFS partition for your normal usage: it's more stable and less prone to unvalitation problems.

Or maybe just download VmwAROS from www.vmwaros.org, that's all you need for AROS in a virtual machine. You'll find also a link to an 'how-to' install VmwAROS on QEMU. Look in recent posts.
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