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I have the debug-enabled version of bochs. Although I occasionally need debug mode, most of the time, I want to launch bochs right from the terminal without stopping to press "c" on the debug command line. Is there a setting that will do this (that doesn't require me to install two different versions of bochs)?

Zack
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Do the following

  • Start bochs
  • Go through the menu setup until you get a booting system
  • Stop bochs
  • Start bochs again
  • there should be a menu option to "Dump options to file"
  • dump the options to file
  • remember the filename, for example say we use bochs9.cfg
  • exit bochs

Now create a file with the letter c followed by a newline, name it something like silly.txt

Now run bochs like this:

 bochs -qf ./bochs9.cfg -rc ./silly.txt

  • -qf will force bochs to skip the menus and use your options file

  • -rc will force bochs to fake typing the contents of silly.txt, which in this case is 'c' + newline, to make it run

This will allow you to boot Bochs into an OS directly from the commandline. Tested with Svardos bootdisk.

See also this Sourceforge Discussion

don bright
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You can use -q option to skip debugger prompt in the beginning.

bochs -q

haolee
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  • this does not work. bochs 2.6.11 on linux. workaround is to dump options from the menu to a file, then run bochs -qf configfile however this still leaves you at debug prompt having to type 'c' – don bright Apr 30 '23 at 07:25