Bochs winxp boot up disk install#

Once booted, we are greeted with a GUI that’s very similar to Windows 3.x. I couldn’t make the mouse driver to work, though surprisingly it’s fully workable with the keyboard. This version I could make work on my own after applying the speed patch. The system doesn’t come with a lot, so I couldn’t do much with it. I never had to use any of these systems fortunately.

Now, about the Nokia logo, I have no idea.īooting this image greets us with a pretty ugly UI reminiscent of Windows 2.x. Yes, remember that this was a joint project between IBM and Microsoft up to OS/2 2.x, so the first versions can be found built by the different vendors.

Ultimately, I found a prebuilt VirtualBox image online that works, but it turns out to be based on a Microsoft build.

Bochs winxp boot up disk install#

I couldn’t get this to install even after patching the boot disk. Anyway, I had to give up but nothing of value was lost. I’m aware that there is a known timing bug that makes OS/2 versions prior to 1.30.1 crash on fast machines (and I tried the patch for that), but that’s not the problem I was encountering I think. I have been unable to make this run on VMware, VirtualBox, QEMU or Bochs because the VM crashes right at boot time. All you had was a command line, but a multi-tasked one at that leveraging the 80286 16-bit protected mode. I wanted to check this out in particular and revive some memories, so I tried to install every single version in a VM and toy around with them for a bit. The thing I find most interesting about OS/2’s history is that it was a joint project between IBM and Microsoft ( ) and that, until some point, it shared the same GUI with Windows. This OS made me escape MS-DOS and Windows, and then made me enter the Linux world when I couldn’t afford Warp 4. OS/2 Warp 3 was the operating system that led me into an adventure back in 1994.