Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: PC machine types switched to SeaBIOS/gPXE

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>]

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Stefan Weil wrote:
> Anthony Liguori schrieb:
>> Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>>  
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I just wanted to let everyone know that I've switched the PC machine
>>>> type to SeaBIOS and gPXE.  SeaBIOS is a port of the Bochs BIOS to GCC,
>>>> by Kevin O'Conner, along with quite a lot of clean up and new
>>>> feature work.
>>>>
>>>> gPXE is the new development tree of etherboot which is now
>>>> deprecated. We've done a lot of testing of and while there are a few
>>>> outstanding
>>>> issues, almost everything seems to be working okay.
>>>>
>>>> Some known issues:
>>>> o e1000 pxe booting doesn't seem to work
>>>> o gPXE does not like the slirp tftp server
>>>>     
>>> Can't confirm, works nicely here with default settings (e1000).
>>>   
>> Interesting.  I'll have to look again.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> it loads the ROM, but ROM and e1000 don't match.

But they work together if you do not specify '-boot n' and go via the
command prompt instead.

> I tested with a fresh build.
> 
> Jan, did you check that qemu uses the correct bios path?
> Maybe -L <dir> was missing.

Yes, it's correct and -L makes no difference.

Jan


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