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From: "J. Mayer" <l_indien@magic.fr>
To: qemu-devel@tux.tmfweb.nl, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu on 2.6.0-rc1
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 00:01:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1073343708.21111.6.camel@rapid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040105223155.GA14669@best.ms.philips.com>

On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 23:31, Rutger Nijlunsing wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I try to run qemu-fast on Linux kernel 2.6.0-rc1. I could not find the
> things which I should change in the documentation:
....
> After recompiling the kernel, both qemu-fast and qemu refuses to boot
> this kernel:
> 
> qemu -nographic -hda linux.img -kernel ../linux-qemu/arch/i386/boot/bzImage -append "root=/dev/hda ide2=noprobe ide3=noprobe ide4=noprobe ide5=noprobe"
> 
> ...boots not bzImage, but the kernel which resides in the image file
> linux.img.

The fact is qemu -kernel relies on the fact that the kernel has a
integrated bootloader at the start of the bzImage. This has been
suppressed in 2.6 kernels, so you should install your kernel inside a
loop device install a MBR at the start of this device. You can use lilo
to do this.

-- 
J. Mayer <l_indien@magic.fr>
Never organized

  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-06  0:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-05 22:31 [Qemu-devel] qemu on 2.6.0-rc1 Rutger Nijlunsing
2004-01-05 23:01 ` J. Mayer [this message]
2004-01-06  0:57 ` Rusty Russell
2004-01-06 21:48   ` Fabrice Bellard
2004-01-07  1:53     ` Rusty Russell
2004-01-07  7:01       ` Herbert Poetzl
2004-01-07 21:33         ` Fabrice Bellard
2004-01-07 21:41           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-01-07 21:37       ` Fabrice Bellard

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