Re: [Qemu-devel] Problems with Zeta LiveCD

[Christian Wiese <developlists@gmx.de>]

Hello again,

I now find some little time to load and test the demo cd.
I forgot that zetaboot.img is the first track of the cd. So you need to 
extract the boot-floppy-file first. You can do this with isobuster for 
instance. With this BootImgage.img you can emulate a proper boot disk. 
But for one reason or another this is not the only problem. So I´m sorry 
to not help you any further. I simply forget how I created my BeOS/ZETA 
HD image :-(

Greetings,
  Chris

Ulf Magnusson wrote:

> That gets me (with -fda substituted for -floppy, which isn't a valid 
> option) an error from the QEMU BIOS that the disk is not bootable. 
> It's too large (1.8Mb) to fit on a regular floppy anyhow.
>
> On 10/23/05, *Christian Wiese* <developlists@gmx.de 
> <mailto:developlists@gmx.de>> wrote:
>
>     Sorry, haven´t the files here till now.
>     But maybe you could try something like that:
>     qemu -floppy zetaboot.img -cdrom zetacd.img -boot a
>     If I get the live cd the next days I´ll try with it myself.
>
>     Greetings,
>       Chris
>
>     Ulf Magnusson wrote:
>
>     > I noticed the official distribution already has the two tracks
>     split
>     > into zetaboot.img and zetacd.img, so that's less work me :)
>     >
>     > I ran
>     >
>     > $ qemu -cdrom zetaboot.img -hda zetacd.img -boot d
>     >
>     > and selected the hd from the boot menu. That led to a kernel panic
>     > (PANIC: boot device not found").
>     >
>     > I then tried running without any hd, and instead changed the disk to
>     > zetacd.img from the console when the prompt for the CD came up. That
>     > way I got to the magnifying glass stage of the ZETA boot screen,
>     but
>     > there it panics with "PANIC: no shell!". Any ideas?
>     >
>     > Thanks for your reply,
>     > Ulf
>     >
>     > On 10/23/05, *Christian Wiese* <developlists@gmx.de
>     <mailto:developlists@gmx.de>
>     > <mailto:developlists@gmx.de <mailto:developlists@gmx.de>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     Hi,
>     >
>     >     this behaviour is because of the way a BeOS/ZETA cd is
>     >     constructed. For
>     >     some more infos take a look at the bottom of this page:
>     >     http://forum.mlotz.ch/viewtopic.php?t=120
>     >     < http://forum.mlotz.ch/viewtopic.php?t=120>
>     >
>     >     What you could do:
>     >     - Make a boot floppy out of track one of your demo-cd.
>     >     - Extract the second track as iso (be sure to take only the
>     second
>     >     track)
>     >     - In qEmu boot from your virtual floppy, press `space` to
>     access the
>     >     bootmenu and select your virtual hd.
>     >     This way I get a complete ZETA installed in qEmu. But don´t
>     expect to
>     >     much, as most hardware is currently not supported (the last
>     time i
>     >     tried)
>     >
>     >     Greetings,
>     >     Chris
>     >
>     >
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