Is there a way to skip the Bochs debug command line?

Question

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)?

Answer 1

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