From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B6s0r-0000OL-18 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 26 Mar 2004 09:08:45 -0500 Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B6qXV-0003dr-84 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 26 Mar 2004 07:34:52 -0500 Received: from [151.189.21.42] (helo=mail-in-02.arcor-online.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.30) id 1B6qXU-0003cf-1i for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 26 Mar 2004 07:34:20 -0500 Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 13:18:04 +0100 From: Richard Zidlicky Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] it works ! Message-ID: <20040326121804.GA2636@linux-m68k.org> References: <200403251956.44494.vaise@votreservice.com> <200403261003.08837.jm@poure.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200403261003.08837.jm@poure.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: jm@poure.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 10:03:08AM +0100, Jean-Michel POURE wrote: > Le jeudi 25 Mars 2004 20:56, vaise@votreservice.com a =E9crit : > > Here is a little trick to allow "already installed" partitions to boo= t. >=20 > Thanks for the info. I did a normal installation on SuSE 8.2 too and bo= oted in=20 > Qemu without problem. But it takes a long time. Wouldn't it be easier t= o=20 > install GNU/Linux directly in qemu using a CD-ROM installer? >=20 > Installers for Mandrake 10, Mandrake 9.x, RedHat 9.x or even Fedora RC-= 2 are=20 > derived from a RedHat base. In all cases, installation in text mode fai= ls=20 > because of CD-ROM recognition problems (see my screenshots on=20 > http://am.xs4all.nl/phpwiki/index.php/Qemu). >=20 > Is there a way of loading the CDROM module manually, with IRQ and hardw= are=20 > address (like it is the case for the "ne" network driver)? there are various kernel parameters that might help. From my head I recal= l ideX=3Dbase,ctrl,irq hdX=3Dide-cd|ide-scsi Some docs are directly in the kernel source. Richard