AMD SimNow Simulator 4.4.5 - 4 Disk Images; Creating a Blank Hard-Drive Image

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AMD Confidential

User Manual November 21

, 2008

Chapter 4: Disk Images 35

4 Disk Images

The simulator uses hard-drive images to provide simulated hard disks to the simulated

computer. There are several ways to obtain hard drive-images.

 Install your OS onto a hard drive in a real system, then move it to the secondary

drive in a system and use DiskTool to copy the contents of the drive to an “.hdd”

image file.

 Make a blank hard-drive image and a DVD-/CD-ROM “ISO” image, and install a

fresh operating system onto the hard-drive image. To make the hard drive and

DVD-/CD-ROM images, refer to Section 4.1, "Creating A Blank Hard-Drive

Image" and Section 13, “DiskTool”, on page 161.

 To use a physical DVD-/CD-ROM:

 Click on the button or select “View→Show Devices” to open the Device

Window (Figure 3-2, on page 9).

 Open the Southbridge's properties window by double-clicking on it, and

choose the “HDD Secondary Channel” tab.

 On a Windows host type “\\.\D:” where “D:” is the drive letter for the DVD-

/CD-ROM, and on a Linux host type “/dev/cdrom” in the “Master Drive -

Image Filename” field.

 Check the DVD-ROM check box below the Filename field.

The simulator can access media via the following mechanisms:

 IDE Hard Disk:

 DiskTool IDE hard-disk image, is a flat file consisting of a 512-byte header

(the IDE probe sector) and a raw image of data from the hard disk (if the raw data

is cut off before the end of the disk, the disk-image from there on will just read as

zero).

 IDE DVD-ROM: (The simulator does not simulate DVD-ROM "insert" events)

 DVD-ROM disk image is a flat file of the raw image of a data DVD-/CD-

ROM. These correspond exactly to ISO file images, for example.

 IDE DVD-ROM direct access

 Floppy Disk:

 Floppy-disk image, a flat file of the raw image of a floppy disk.

 Floppy direct access

Please refer to Section 13, “DiskTool”, on page 161 to find out how to set up a Windows

or Linux hard-drive image for the simulator.

4.1 Creating A Blank Hard-Drive Image

To create a hard-drive image use DiskTool. You can start DiskTool by launching

"disktool.exe" in your install directory. For convenience, you can create a desktop

shortcut to launch DiskTool. When you run DiskTool, you will see the DiskTool dialog