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Bochs places an automatic breakpoint just before the BIOS loads, this can be automatically skipped by putting <tt>continue</tt> as the first command in the said file.
===Debugging Triple Faults===
When using the internal debugger, you may change this line in your Bochs configuration file:
reset_on_triple_fault 0
This line disables the emulator reset on a Triple fault, enabling you to debug the code after a Triple fault occured (Very useful while implementing paging).
==Compiling Bochs from Source==
Bochs has many compile-time configuration options, some of which conflict, and therefore a binary distribution of Bochs may not be suitable for your purposes. I found it was best to compile my own copy of Bochs to be sure I had the features that I needed. Also, you should consider using the CVS snapshot version of Bochs if the released version is old and not working for you. I found this was necessary up until version 2.4 was released, for example. On Ubuntu, you may have to run
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